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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM!peyto!thurlow From: thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) 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: 17 Jan 1996 05:04:58 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Lines: 18 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4di01q$5bv@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d9i2k$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> <4dcbm9$c93@diablo.cet.co.jp> <4de8vg$6nh@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: peyto.eng.sun.com Cc: Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2002 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2154 comp.unix.solaris:57457 comp.unix.aix:68875 In article <4de8vg$6nh@park.uvsc.edu>, Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: >You are obviously blissfully aware of how Sun and USL maintain >their source trees. It is difficult (if not impossible) to get >cross-platform changes done in their environment. It hasn't been this way for that long, but Solaris now has a single source base. Non-platform-specific code is shared, and platform-specific code is in subdirectories. Rob T -- Rob Thurlow, thurlow@eng.sun.com There was something fishy about the butler. I think he was a Pisces, probably working for scale. -- Nick Danger, Third Eye