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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.
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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.
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Donal K. Fellows, (PGP stuff not ready yet, but I'm working on it... :)
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