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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!in2.uu.net!news.fido.net!news.roundabout.org!news.demon.co.uk!demon!sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk!uknet!news.hds.co.uk!john From: Gary Walsh <Gary_Walsh@spire.hds.co.uk> 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: 18 Jan 1996 09:16:04 GMT Organization: Hitachi Data Systems Lines: 39 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <4dl34k$59p@willow.hds.co.uk> References: <4cmopu$d35@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <4d43bt$es8@park.uvsc.edu> <4d5vhg$38p@mail.fwi.uva.nl> <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu> <DLBIAq.GME@ftel.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: hdsep.hds.co.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 1.22 (Windows; I; 16bit) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2023 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:2181 comp.unix.solaris:57595 comp.unix.aix:69010 I.G.Batten@ftel.co.uk (Ian G Batten) wrote: >In article <4dbun0$j2f@park.uvsc.edu>, >Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> wrote: > >> 4) Available for Motorolla based hadware so a heterogeneous >> environment can provide the user with a near-identical > >How many serious sites still use Motorola suns as anything more than X >terminals? Why would they do such a thing? The last release for >Motorola was 4.1.1 (4.1.1_U1, perhaps?) so they had been cut loose even >before SunOS 5 hit the streets (a friend of mine saw a very early SVR4 >from Sun on a 3/80, so the whole thing's marketing-led anyway). Sun 2s >were dropped in 4.0.3. > > I don't think the reference was to Motorola Suns, but to Motorola PowerStack machines. These are PReP-compliant machines (PowerPC CPU) that can run a number of Operating Systems including AIX 4.1, Solaris 2.5, Windows NT,.... That means you can install Solaris, realise what a mistake that was, then install AIX instead without changing the hardware platform..... Gary -- _____________________________________________________________________ Gary Walsh E-mail: Gary_Walsh@spire.hds.co.uk Open Systems Product Specialist Phone: +44 1753 618806 Hitachi Data Systems Fax: +44 1753 618576 Sefton Park Stoke Poges Disclaimer: My views, not HDS' Buckinghamshire SL2 4HD England _____________________________________________________________________