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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Message-ID: <DL8IJ2.A5v.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <4d37d4$j0l@gremlin.backfire.mn.org> <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> <bryDL3r9p.2oq@netcom.com>
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Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 18:11:26 GMT
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In article <bryDL3r9p.2oq@netcom.com> bry@netcom.com (Bryan Althaus) writes:
>You have people who spent years
>on SunOS and can tune the OS the way they like and then compare that
>to Solaris 2.3 and say Solaris sucks.
And they are quite right to do so. Many long-term Sun customers have
years of experience in SunOS [234] and see no reason why they should
have to throw it away.
>The arguement I loved was the comparison of SunOS 4.1.x threads to
>Solaris 2.x. SunOS 4.1.x threads are a joke ...
Sun could perfectly well have developed SunOS 4 to have the useful
additions in Solaris 2, *without* throwing away a perfectly good
system. Somehow I don't think it's necessary to change the arguments
to "ls" in order to get kernel threads.
-- Richard
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