4 Jan
2022
4 Jan
'22
5:37 a.m.
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:
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.
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.