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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!ncar!newshost.lanl.gov!usenet From: turner@lanl.gov (John Turner) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: 14 Jan 1996 17:59:03 GMT Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory Lines: 16 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <TURNER.96Jan14105903@gielgud.lanl.gov> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4d37d4$j0l@gremlin.backfire.mn.org> <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> <DL3Bv8.22H@ritz.mordor.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gielgud.lanl.gov In-reply-to: bet@ritz.mordor.com's message of Fri, 12 Jan 1996 22:59:32 GMT Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1813 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1937 comp.unix.solaris:56457 comp.unix.aix:68058 In article <DL3Bv8.22H@ritz.mordor.com> bet@ritz.mordor.com (Bennett Todd) writes: > By 2.5 Sun seems to have made Solaris 2 nearly as useable as SunOS 4.x was 5 > years ago. As long as you've got an SS-20 with 128MB of memory to run it on, > it plods along OK (assuming you aren't masochistic enough to run CDE; that > crawls dog-slow even on a top-end box). This is simply nonsense. I have an IPX with 64MB at home. Solaris 2.4 felt faster than 4.1.4. Solaris 2.5 is even faster, and CDE is *tons* more responsive even than OpenWindows 3.4. I didn't use OW 3.5 long enough to see if it was faster or not. My work machine is an SS20/50 with 96MB. It's harder to tell since it's a client with local swap, but Solaris 2.5/CDE definitely feels faster than SunOS4.1.4/OW. -John