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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.hawaii.edu!ames!hookup!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!ub!dsinc!netnews.upenn.edu!news.voicenet.com!news From: 5150 (5150) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison) Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:01:16 GMT Organization: Voicenet - Internet Access - (215)674-9290 Lines: 22 Message-ID: <4dhvlu$85c@news.voicenet.com> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d43bt$es8@park.uvsc.edu> <4d6v8e$b1e@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4d9has$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> <4de3db$n6a@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> NNTP-Posting-Host: philly34.voicenet.com X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent v0.55 thurlow@peyto.eng.sun.com (Robert Thurlow) wrote: >I don't know what you're talking about in the rest of your post, >but you clearly missed my point. lemme summarize: a) Solaris sucks. b) Sun hardware is VASTLY overpriced and overmatched by Intel-based designs costing a fraction of the price. c) BSD-based unixes smoke most SVR4. But all (well, maybe not SCO), will bitch-slap the notoriously slow, and buggy Solaris 2.x d) Solaris sucks.