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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!paladin.american.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.ios.com!tribeca.ios.com!jvela From: jvela@tribeca.ios.com (Jose Vela) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Followup-To: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.aix Date: 16 Jan 1996 21:21:57 GMT Organization: Internet Online Services Lines: 104 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dh4tl$lm3@news.ios.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4d37d4$j0l@gremlin.backfire.mn.org> <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> <bryDL3r9p.2oq@netcom.com> <4da5nl$8l5@news.voicenet.com> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: tribeca.ios.com X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1858 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1991 comp.unix.solaris:56710 comp.unix.aix:68249 You guys forget many other things WHile I have been using Soalris for the past year and I have to admit I really hated it at the begining, it is OK now and I kinda like soem things about it.. On the other hand, I have usedAIX too and I love it ... You forget a very nice feature with AIX, volume manager, that while you don't have RAID 5 , you have mirroring, logs, concat, etc INCLUDED with AIX We just spent (wasted??) an ENTIRE day trying to configure Sybase on a Sparc 2000 with ODS 4.0 (they change the release every 6 months !!) and I created a HUGE problem, we had to get a newer binary from Sybase to be able to initialize the 'raw' partitions created by ODS ... So you see, with Solaris you have to take care about many MANY things, from patch levels, software to use (third party vendor, Sun's,) release for the soft you want to use etc... With AIX that process is MUCH more simpler .... I am sure Solaris will get to that point in the future .. I had to go thru that same process with AIX, we had some big problems in the first releases, until AIX 3.2.5 and since then everything has been just fine .. AIX took about 2 years ?? to mature .. Solaris is trying to get there, maybe next year ???? oh yes, one more thing SMITH on AIX ( for sys admin stuff) it is the best 'admintool' that I know on unix, admintool on Sun ??? come on, looks like a joke some times ... The only thing I don't like too much with AIx is when you get a bad hard drive and stuff, you really need to know about how to do it, it could get messy I am sure there are more points but that's for now Jose Vela TWC of NYC Casper H.S. Dik (casper@fwi.uva.nl) wrote: : Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: : >AIX features that are more modern than equivalents in Solaris: : >1) Dynamically sized kernel structures. Solaris has made : > some headway in this direction, but AIX beats *everyone* : > else cold. : Examples please? Can stuff be grown arbitrarily and what stuff can : so be grown? : >2) Motif environment shipped with system by default. : CDE with Solaris 2.x. : >3) Clone devices for PTY's, not limited by range. : Clone devs for ptys in Solaris 2.x (limited by range?) : >6) Sample device driver source code available in suplementary : > documentation. : Available in the DDK and from some ftp sites. : >8) Thread stacks are not required to be preallocated at some : > limited size; they will be grown as needed, just like : > regular process stacks (UnixWare has support for this : > as well, but does not make use of the VM facility). : In kernel thread stacks? Solaris 2.x does the same for its : user thread stacks. The location is pre-determined though, no swap : space or VM is allocated. : >10) A kernel that is *never* recompiled by the customer. : Same with Solaris 2.x. : Casper : -- : Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University : of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM : Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may : be fiction rather than truth.