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From: poffen@San-Jose.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: Solaris 1.1 (SunOS 4.1.3) on Classic/LX
Followup-To: comp.sys.sun.misc,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd
Date: 14 Jul 1993 17:15:18 GMT
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Steinar Haug (Steinar.Haug@runit.sintef.no) wrote:
: limes@fusim.Eng.Sun.COM (Greg Limes) writes:
: > While I quite frankly prefer SunOS 4, I've been using Solaris 2 for
: > several months, and it has been acceptable (and is improving).
: I'm glad to see such an honest opionion from somebody working at Sun.
: More over, I agree completely with this statement. I am very familiar
: with SunOS 4.1.x, and like it a lot. I am getting to know Solaris 2.2
: better, and find it quite usable. In time it's quite possible that I
: may get to prefer Solaris 2.x over SunOS 4.1.3.
: Yes, Sun has done some bad things in connection with the introduction
: of Solaris 2.x. But things are improving...
: As for myself, I'm looking forward to 2.3, which should be released some
: time this fall/winter. And I'm also looking forward to BSD 4.4 on Suns,
: but that won't happen until the lawsuit between USL and BSDI/UCB has been
: settled... BSD 4.4 will only run on the sun4c architecture, as far as I
: know. Anyone for porting to sun4m?
I hope it is faster. My manager volunteered to be the Guinea pig for Solaris
2.2, and he claims it is far slower running OpenWindows on a Classic than
running OpenWindows on a SS-1 running 4.1.1.
Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
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