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Subject: Re: ISP hardware/software choices (performance comparison)
Date: Wed, 17 Jan 1996 08:01:16 GMT
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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.