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From: myhst1+@pitt.edu (Ming Y Huang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.bsd,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.unixware
Subject: Re: Unix for PC
Date: 1 Dec 1994 03:11:50 GMT
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stacey@tuffy.Eng.Sun.COM (Stacey Campbell) wrote:
>In article <D03L47.FxJ@ct.covia.com> tundra@ct.covia.com (Tundra Tim Daneliuk) writes:
>>You can't be serious! Solaris is buggy and **SLOW**.
>
>Which version of Solaris?  Which hardware platform?
>-- 
>                Stacey Campbell - Stacey.Campbell@Eng.Sun.COM


I am using 2.4 on my 486-66 with 32MB ram.  I totally agree that it is
very slow compare linux on the same machine.  However I don't think it
is too buggy.