4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
8:49 p.m.
Oh, that reminded me of SunOS 4.0 that introduced streams. Broke
So I used to pine for 3.5!
Agree re 2.4/2.5.1 having gotten an O/S back to being solid and very usable
-- IIRC we had customers query whether they had good distribution media,
because the "patch" directory was empty. No patches were introduced during
beta.
On Tue, 4 Jan 2022, 07:38 Adam Thornton, <athornton(a)gmail.com> wrote:
2.5.1 was the first Solaris that didn't often
make me scream that I wanted
SunOS 4.1 back.
Adam
On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 4:32 PM Doug McIntyre <merlyn(a)geeks.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 04:15:08PM -0500, Dan Cross wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 3:23 PM Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> wrote:
>
> > > Yeah, to be fair, by the time Solaris 2.3 or 2.4 came around, it was
> > > mostly up to par. (Or maybe it was because Moore's law meant that we
> > > didn't care any more. :-)
> >
> > I have some vague memories that we had to do something like double the
> > RAM in our SPARCstations to make Solaris 2 feel comfortable. At the
> > time, that was a pretty serious outlay in an academic department.
> > 2.5.1 felt like the first version that was _truly_ usable.
>
> 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.
>
>
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