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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!newsfeed.internetmci.com!EU.net!sun4nl!fwi.uva.nl!not-for-mail From: casper@fwi.uva.nl (Casper H.S. Dik) 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: 16 Jan 1996 14:31:12 +0100 Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 44 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dg9b0$74d@mail.fwi.uva.nl> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4cu7t0$mg5@engnews2.Eng.Sun.COM> <4cv8j1$59k@park.uvsc.edu> <4d37d4$j0l@gremlin.backfire.mn.org> <DL29Az.Ax2@ftel.co.uk> <bryDL3r9p.2oq@netcom.com> <4da5nl$8l5@news.voicenet.com> <bryDL5wtq.4Fo@netcom.com> <4dc00a$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <bryDL7E84.LG3@netcom.com> <4decke$6nh@park.uvsc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: mail.fwi.uva.nl Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:1989 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2138 comp.unix.solaris:57384 comp.unix.aix:68810 Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> writes: >AIX features that are more modern than equivalents in Solaris: >1) Dynamically sized kernel structures. Solaris has made > some headway in this direction, but AIX beats *everyone* > else cold. Examples please? Can stuff be grown arbitrarily and what stuff can so be grown? >2) Motif environment shipped with system by default. CDE with Solaris 2.x. >3) Clone devices for PTY's, not limited by range. Clone devs for ptys in Solaris 2.x (limited by range?) >6) Sample device driver source code available in suplementary > documentation. Available in the DDK and from some ftp sites. >8) Thread stacks are not required to be preallocated at some > limited size; they will be grown as needed, just like > regular process stacks (UnixWare has support for this > as well, but does not make use of the VM facility). In kernel thread stacks? Solaris 2.x does the same for its user thread stacks. The location is pre-determined though, no swap space or VM is allocated. >10) A kernel that is *never* recompiled by the customer. Same with Solaris 2.x. Casper -- Casper Dik - Sun Microsystems - via my guest account at the University of Amsterdam. My work e-mail address is: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.