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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!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!cssun.mathcs.emory.edu!gatech!newsfeed.internetmci.com!netnews.nwnet.net!nwnet.net!not-for-mail From: aad@nwnet.net (Anthony D'Atri) 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 15:02:14 -0800 Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA Lines: 25 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4demdm$ovd@olympus.nwnet.net> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4cvjpk$rpf@durban.vector.co.za> Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1978 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2123 comp.unix.solaris:57306 comp.unix.aix:68775 > Personally, I intentionally associate because I don't think > that SunOS 5.x is worthy of the name SunOS. For x=[012], I'd certainly agree. I'm running two machines with 5.3+lots-o-patches and don't dislike it as much as I used to. It seems reasonably stable, and my use of them has avoided some of the uglier bits, like the bizarro serial-port management stuff. >Sun would be a small niche-market workstation player if they had not >overhauled SunOS 4 to SunOS 5/Solaris 2. That isn't clear. IMHO, Sun's hop to the SVR4 bandwagon is what tipped the scales. I'm not convinced that other vendors (eg., HP & SGI) would have switched if Sun hadn't. To me, the biggest intrinsic difference between SunOS 4 & 5 is that the latter ships with SMP, which is not to say that SVR4 was required for SMP, since vendors like Solbourne & Convex did it with BSD-ish OS's years ago. >If you want a multi-billion >dollar company to slowly strangle itself while pandering just to your >needs, start it yourself! Over the last ten years I've seen more than one strangle itself. One made a remarkable leapfrogging comeback; another hasn't.