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Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6
Date: 19 Dec 1996 08:29:18 +0100
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mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch) writes:

> I once had my fingers on a Siemens MX300i, which was running Sinix. It
> was some months after I installed Solaris 2.0 on our first Sparc
> system. Almost everything, I learend about Solaris was the same on the
> Siemens system. I read an article about the sceduling classes and the
> administration commands. They were the same on the Siemens
> box. Sceduling classes really sounds like internals to me.

But that doesn't contradict what I said. (At least not what I _meant_
to say.) I wasn't debating the fact that Sinix 5.4x and Solaris 2.x are
quite similar internally. (They are.) But neither of these is very
similar to System V Release 3. The scheduler, btw., is neither very
BSDish nor System Vish. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but I think
the class-oriented scheduler is new with SVR4. (And it is pretty nifty.)