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From: jpatrick@crl.com (J. Heather Patrick)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 8 Dec 1994 19:15:52 -0800
Organization: Chaos, Inc
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In article <D0I0Jq.991@ssbunews.ih.att.com>,
55433-jack fijolek(hhall) <jack1@iexist.flw.att.com> wrote:
>
>In article <3c5cos$bhb@crl7.crl.com>, jpatrick@crl.com (J. Heather Patrick) writes:
>|>
>|> Do you think 10 reasons comprises "more capable", or should I go on?
>|>
>|>
>Go on because a lot of this disappears in UW2.0 (ie. X env).
Glad to hear it. Although I'll believe it when I see it :-)
>UW did a nice layered virtual machine for X, and X ain't nice.
What do you mean in this case by "virtual machine for X"?
I shall now, by popular demand, elucidate upon the points I made, which
should already be clear to people who have used both unixware and solaris.
THe following comparison pertains to:
Solaris 2.4
Unixware 1.1 (cause we ain't got no 2.0)
Better NFS:
the nfs daemon for solaris is multithreaded
(+ more reasons that I dont remember, but a sun engineer could
probably point out)
More full set of code libraries:
As I pointed out in email to someone, solaris has the goodies like
strcasecmp(). UW1.1 does not.
Better X server:
R5 based. REAL implementation of standard R5, including 16-bit fonts.
(there is an optional package called metrolink that claims
to provide R5 for unixware. no MITSHM. no 16-bit-fonts)
MITSHM extension.
DPS (Adobe-DPS-Extension, AND DPSExtension)
Multi-Buffering
MIT_SUNDRY_NONSTANDARD
X3D-PEX
XimputExtension
XTEST
Better X server environment:
A real olwm. the pseudo-olwm with unixware 1.1 is broken. i dont
remember how right now, sorry.
A real xterm. The "xterm" with unixware is a very sad joke.
More stuff I dont remember right now, but other users of both systems
should be able to fill in.
Working man pages:
Source for man pages is EXTRA in uw1.1?? Come ON. And the
apropos/whatis stuff is useless without it.
Plus, the solaris stuff uses the cache generated by catman -w
to speed up "man xx" serach times
I apologise for my mistake on the compiler issue.