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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!metro!metro!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!uunet!in1.uu.net!192.147.65.66!news.lehman.com!lonweb.lehman.com!news From: Paul David Fox <pfox@lehman.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.solaris,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.osf.osf1 Subject: Re: Solaris 2.6 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 1996 11:06:19 +0000 Organization: Lehman Brothers, Inc. Lines: 34 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <32AE95AB.7DE14518@lehman.com> References: <32986299.AC7@mail.esrin.esa.it> <58ccqm$q13@web.nmti.com> <58hj11$bb6@panix.com> <58hs93$h63@web.nmti.com> <E26rtz.23F@jadpc.jd.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: london6app1.lehman.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 4.1.4 sun4m) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.solaris:92191 comp.unix.bsd.misc:1767 comp.unix.internals:11563 comp.unix.osf.osf1:16990 Jim Deitch wrote: > > Some of us are still running Interactive. I am up to 4.1. It still > feels like System V, smells like System V, except for a few minor > differences. The one I like the most is the long filenames. Solaris > is kind of like HP/UX 10.X. Big, slow, clumsy. HP/UX 9.X OTOH was a > System V system. I really rue the day we switched... I wasnt bitching that ISC was particularly bad. Just that SVR3 was. E.g. no ABI compatability for TCP apps. No ABI for ^Z/job-control. Trying to select on a tty device is a joke. (Yes it can work under SCO & ISC but you cannot use the same binary for the two systems). As for HP/UX 9 or 10. Do they support rock-ridge extensions on CD's yet (how long is it, nearly 10 years since it was proposed and first implemented). Can you see which shared libs a currently running process has mapped, and how much RAM they take? Can you actually debug anything under HP without SoftBench or printf() statements. HP/UX doesnt come close to a usable Unix system in my personal opinion. I'm glad you are happy with it. If you think Solaris sucks, then you are missing the icings on the cake that make people devotees. (Of course you could say the same about me & HP's). _______________________________________________________ | Paul David Fox Lehman Brothers. | | ###################### E-mail: pfox@lehman.com | | # This space for rent# Home: fox@crisp.demon.co.uk | | ###################### Tel: +44 171 601 0011 x6397 | ** I do not speak for Lehmans. Everything I say is my own stupid fault. **