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From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development.system,comp.unix.bsd.386bsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Historic Opportunity facing Free Unix (was Re: The Lai/Baker paper, benchmarks, and the world of free UNIX)
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 1996 11:33:21 -0700
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Thumper! wrote:
] Joshy wrote:
]
] > Free Unix has these features
] >
] > A fast filesystem
] > A flat memory model with a good virtual memory system
] > true 32bit multitasking
] > fantastic networking support
] > lots of development utilites
] > a completely crash proof kernel
] > a future on SMP motherboards
]
] Some things it doesn't have
]
] journaled/logged file system
Berkeley LFS
] built-in RAID support
BSD CCD (mirroring and striping with spindle sync); not full
RAID 5, but on an idiot would do ECC and hamming codes in
software and expect reasonable preformance. A Software fault
tolerance soloution for legacy hardware? Yes. A good idea? No.
] clustering support (or an upgrade path to)
The Sarnoff center clusterning code, publically available; there
is alod an implementation of distributed shared memory using a
maodified NFS with a cache choherency protocol.
] legacy network (such as VINES) support
Well, you got me there.
Windows95 and WindowsNT are in the same, boat however: funny
enough, people who run old software aren't buying your new
software and so are not giving you money. I wonder why they
aren't being supported?
Terry Lambert
terry@lambert.org
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Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
or previous employers.