Didn4t know about all these details, only read about it somewhere.
And a little joke is that you needed all that hardware to make "slowlaris"
run. I never worked with Solaris 7, I know that it has many improvements
from 2.6, but most of the results still place Solaris behind other Unix
systems.
Thanks, Robert
best regards,
Rodrigo
From: Robert.Cross AT scottish-newcastle.co DOT uk
To: rodrigo_gazzaneo AT HOTMAIL DOT COM, MRemeta AT SeligmanData DOT com
CC: ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
Subject: OT: Sun hardware (was Re: Solaris 7)
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 14:20:19 +0100 (GDT)
>Talking about architecture (Gigaplane and stuff). Not about CPUs.
>>From: "Remeta, Mark" <MRemeta AT SeligmanData DOT com>
>>To: "'rodrigo_gazzaneo AT hotmail DOT com'" <rodrigo_gazzaneo AT hotmail DOT
com>
>>Subject: RE: Solaris 7
>>Date: Wed, 29 Sep 1999 08:27:58 -0400
>>
>>Sun got there hardware from Cray????
>>Since when, that's news to me...
>>Sun uses Sparc CPU's still, don't they.
If memory serves me rightly, the announcement went something like:
Dateline: (a long time ago), Cray Research announces CS6400 superscalar
server
line
to complement their existing range of vectorizing supercomputers. The
CS6400
will
be based on Sun Microsystems popular SuperSPARC processor and Solaris
operating
system. The CS6400, which carried the code-name "Super Dragon" will feature
up
to
64 processors . . . .
Cray Research sold this product line when they got taken over by Silicon
Graphics Inc, before
the latter-named company went mad and became yet another NT box shifter
[pauses
to
spit]. Not surprisingly, Sun bought the CS6400 line, continued to sell it,
and
put the best bits into
the E10000. Rumour has it that some of the Cray technology has also found
it's
way into
the lower end E-series boxes as well.
So now you know.
I totally agree with the comments about Sun having the best hardware, but
one
of the worst OS's.
IMHO AIX has got it beaten on just about every point, apart from price.
Bob Cross, Systems Programmer (and Solaris admin).
[Apologies for the dumb disclaimer that follows, not my idea]
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