*BSD News Article 59887


Return to BSD News archive

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!news.ysu.edu!freenet.akron.oh.us!neoucom.edu!ns.mcs.kent.edu!usenet.ins.cwru.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!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: 17 Jan 1996 14:02:08 -0800
Organization: NorthWestNet, Bellevue, WA
Lines: 29
Distribution: inet
Message-ID: <4djrl0$84s@olympus.nwnet.net>
References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d70n5$6lp@diablo.cet.co.jp> <4d9i2k$qo9@park.uvsc.edu> <30FC1B47.17A3@hydra.acs.uci.edu>
Reply-To: aad@nwnet.net
NNTP-Posting-Host: olympus.nwnet.net
Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2013 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2169 comp.unix.solaris:57548 comp.unix.aix:68970

>The entire industry is System V!

This isn't true now, and was even less true back a few years when Sun
jumped the fence.


>> ] SYSV adopts ffs calls it ufs and implements it within its
>> ] vnode/vfs framework.

After now many years?

>But SunOS 4.1.x didn't keep up - or rather, it's parent OS, BSD, didn't.
>SysV did, so the obvious answer....

SysV kept up?  Well, gee, I guess I must have imagined head(1) and decent
filenames being missing just a couple of years ago.

>Are you starting to catch on?   The industry was moving rapidly away
>from BSD.  Sun was the last major player with a BSD-based OS.

DEC wasn't a major player?  At least one of those major players (HP) lost
business because of being SysV-fixated.  The folks in Utah ported BSD
to their hardware way, way back.

>If you're so in love with Friggin BSD, why don't you go after the
>vendors that -started- the trend away from BSD?

From where I sat, it was Sun that made the decisive switch.