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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
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)
Date: 10 Jan 1996 02:34:09 GMT
Organization: Utah Valley State College, Orem, Utah
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thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote:
] In article <4cs2kn$kfg@cynic.portal.ca>, Curt Sampson <curt@portal.ca> wrote:
]
] >Solaris. `SunOS' generally means `SunOS 4.x.x.' I've heard Solaris
] >called SunOS 5
]
] I suppose this is a losing battle, but your terminology is the
] main problem here. Solaris is the term for the bundle that
] includes OpenWindows (or later on, CDE); Solaris 1.x include
] SunOS 4.1.x, while Solaris 2.x include SunOS 5.x. Every Sun
] operating system boots as "SunOS <something-or-other>", and
] the 5.x releases are the SVR4-based releases. The only reason
] you associate Solaris with SVR4 is that it was coined sometime
] near the same time as SVR4 hit the streets.
Personally, I intentionally associate because I don't think
that SunOS 5.x is worthy of the name SunOS.
It is generally inferior in almost all respects (save MP).
I could argue thread scheduling, NFS, and VM with you until
I am blue in the face. 8-).
Almost everyone (except SunSoft) pretty much feels the same way,
it seems.
Sun had to back-port 4.1.3 to the new hardware because some
of the Japanese OEM's (Hitachi, Tatung, from memory) threatened
to do their own BSD port because they hated Solaris so much.
Sun tries to hide the fact that there's a difference using
labelling, but we all know the difference between BSD and SVR4,
and we prefer BSD.
Getting the SVID label for government contracts probably helped
Sun as much as turning Xenix into SVR3 helped SCO when they were
going for Desktop II and AFCAC 451... that is: NOT!
Terry Lambert
terry@cs.weber.edu
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.