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Xref: sserve comp.os.linux.misc:30091 comp.os.386bsd.misc:4143 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!pipex!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!yama.mcc.ac.uk!cs.man.ac.uk!fellowsd From: fellowsd@cs.man.ac.uk (Donal K. Fellows) Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.386bsd.misc Subject: Re: The ULTIMATE comment on operating systems Date: 10 Nov 1994 14:06:45 GMT Organization: Dept of Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K. Lines: 20 Message-ID: <39t9dl$jhm@m1.cs.man.ac.uk> References: <085334Z20101994@anon.penet.fi> <38i2sc$p71@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <38r6a9$6l8@shum.cc.huji.ac.il> <38uqop$51i@flinx.robin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: r8h.cs.man.ac.uk NNTP-Posting-User: 8028 In article <38uqop$51i@flinx.robin.de>, Noses <noses@flinx.RoBIN.de> wrote: >You forgot: > 10. AIX is too lazy for sucking >and > 11. Solaris 2.x is too slow for it. > Correction: The scheduler in Solaris 2.x merely ensures that any process involved with sucking gets no timme in which to execute. In fact, the most thoroughly sucking part of it is the s*dding sceduler... It was quite nice for running a 3D clock on though... :) Donal. -- Donal K. Fellows, (PGP stuff not ready yet, but I'm working on it... :) Dept. of Computer Science, 6, Randall Place, Heaton, University of Manchester Bradford, BD9 4AE U.K. Tel: ++44-161-275-6137 U.K. Tel: ++44-1274-545252