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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!news.CET.CO.JP!usenet From: Li Zhengchun <lilyli@cet.co.jp> Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.misc,comp.unix.osf.misc,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.sco.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.sys5.misc,comp.unix.ultrix,comp.unix.unixware.misc,comp.unix.xenix.misc Subject: Re: Trying to research UNIX OS Date: Sat, 06 Apr 1996 12:38:43 +0900 Organization: CET Lines: 17 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <3165E743.2F3A@cet.co.jp> References: <Dp1KLC.398@nvc.cc.ca.us> <4ji8pb$klg@intelsat2.intelsat.int> <4jop28$bmp@badger.wmin.ac.uk> <DpDGwG.J9J@in.irs.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: a07m.cet.co.jp Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.0 (Win95; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:40301 comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc:488 comp.unix.bsd.misc:637 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:2808 comp.unix.misc:21831 comp.unix.osf.misc:3000 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:9126 comp.unix.sco.misc:15870 comp.unix.solaris:65203 comp.unix.sys5.misc:974 comp.unix.ultrix:27207 comp.unix.unixware.misc:11952 comp.unix.xenix.misc:1094 Raymond Shwake wrote: > > ncfee@westminster.ac.uk (Chris Ebenezer) writes: > > >I don't think that Solaris is would work very happily under load, with only > >16 Meg of RAM. AFAIK. Has anyone out there tried it with this sort of config ? > > I'm running Solaris X86 2.5 Desktop on a DX2/66 w/ 16 MB RAM, 256 k L2, > Adaptec 2842VL and Diamond Viper. Yes, it does work, even with CDE, but it's > not particularly fast. I'd hate to think how it would work under load. > UnixWare 2.01 on the same platform is notably more responsive, and Xinside has licensed Solaris CDE and will be providing it on numerous platforms including UnixWare, BSDI, and Linux. I think we will soon see a *fast*, less memory intensive implementation of CDE soon. -mh