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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc,comp.unix.solaris,comp.os.linux.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!www.nntp.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in1.uu.net!news.reference.com!cnn.nas.nasa.gov!eos!kronos.arc.nasa.gov!logan From: logan@kronos.arc.nasa.gov (Logan Shaw) Subject: Re: Benchmarking different Unix Operating Systems Message-ID: <1996Sep18.064024.26067@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov> Sender: usenet@ptolemy-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov (usenet@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov) Nntp-Posting-Host: kronos-ethernet.arc.nasa.gov Organization: NASA/ARC Computational Sciences Division References: <aak2.842008017@Isis.MsState.Edu> <5120jc$qh5@panix.com> <32399C1B.7EC4FD4F@lambert.org> <dpz685inpus.fsf@eng.sun.com> Distribution: inet Date: Wed, 18 Sep 1996 06:40:24 GMT Lines: 17 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:27490 comp.unix.solaris:82961 comp.os.linux.misc:129974 In article <dpz685inpus.fsf@eng.sun.com>, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@eng.sun.com> wrote: >t> And pthreads runs on HP. > >No it doesn't. HP ships with DCE threads, which are relatively >ancient and crufty. Solaris 2.5 and 2.5.1, Digital UNIX 4.0, and Irix >6.2 (with appropriate patch) are the only systems that currently ship >with standard POSIX threads on board. I vaguely remember Posix threads being part of AIX. As I recall, a company where I used to work was doing a really good job of breaking them under 3.2.5. - Logan -- Logan Shaw, Unix Systems Administrator "everybody / loves to see / justice done / on somebody else" (Bruce Cockburn)