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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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: 15 Jan 1996 20:22:38 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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gavin@durban.vector.co.za (Gavin Maltby) wrote:
] I won't defend the print spooler (of course, SunOS 4 had a
] truly primitive print implementation that you really had to
] hack to get to do something out-of-the-ordinary).
The correct fix for this is Palladium, or rather the IEEE standard
based on Project Athena's Palladium.
Of course, you don't want to be silly like IEEE here and not
specify a generic queuing API on which you *build* the print
API, but Palladium is definitely the top level model.
] : Well not the arguments from me. Rather than fix something that was
] : broken, Sun (and all the other vendors) have broken something that was
] : fixed. This is the biggest complaint I have about Solaris: there's a
] : lot of pain for no real gain - apart from the artificial benefit of
] : getting an OS for the latest Sun kit that Sun won't let run SunOS.
]
] There is a whole lot to gain. The religious war derives from whether
] the benefits should have been derived from the old SunOS 4 based kernel
] or through first switching to SVR4.
Better the devil you know.
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.