4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
8:28 a.m.
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 03:44:11PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:21:51PM -0600, Doug
McIntyre wrote:
I would have thought that if we consider the amount of engineering
resources to that was invested to get from Solaris 2.0 to 2.5.1, if
that had instead been invested into making SunOS a scalable SMP OS,
that it would have been doable. Do you think that's fair?
Of course, that's assuming that Sun could have stayed afloat without
that injection of cash from AT&T....
- Ted
I'd agree, 2.4 was pretty slow and chunky,
2.5 was alright, but 2.5.1 was quite usable and stable.
Also by this time, the hardware was going in directions that SunOS wouldn't keep up
with.
Yeah, Doug is right, SunOS was pretty simple, it didn't really take advantage
of SMP, Greg Limes tried to thread it but it was too big a job for one guy.
That's not to say that SunOS couldn't have evolved into SMP, I'm 100%
sure it could have. It just didn't. It's a shame.