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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!news.mathworks.com!news.kei.com!nntp.coast.net!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!uk-usenet.uk.sun.com!sungy!usenet From: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) 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: 15 Jan 1996 10:28:04 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 36 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dda7k$lfm@sungy.Germany.Sun.COM> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4crnbe$8a@olympus.nwnet.net> <4cs2kn$kfg@cynic.portal.ca> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4cvjpk$rpf@durban.vector.co.za> <4d4s3u$u3@news.voicenet.com> <4d70n5$6lp@diablo.cet.co.jp> <4d9i2k$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: room101.holland.sun.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1963 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2113 comp.unix.solaris:57255 comp.unix.aix:68730 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >They were until Sun bought out their license for SVR4 sources >so that their code could diverge again. If SVR4 was the one and only other Unix, you would have a point. But that's simply not the case. Besides, it's the API that counts, not what's under the hood. >BTW: it would be legal for Sun to put the SVR4 code they bought >out up for anonymous FTP. Legal, I'm not even sure if that. But shareholders could very well sue. (You bought something for hundreds of millions of dollars and you're now *giving*it away ??!?!?) >Uh, the Usenix VFS papers were all based on SunOS. Which make them fall in Sun's camp, not BSD or SVR4. >It's not going to happen. There is no way to add value to >non-commodity hardware, other than divergence. There's no >way for products to compete on commodity hardware without >divergence. Quite so. But the common subset of Unix commands and interfaces has grown so much that you can now write useful programs on top of Unix standards. You could not do so with POSIX.1. Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.