From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Jon Steinhart <jon@fourwinds.com>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS?
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2021 13:11:00 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210124211100.GI21030@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202101242045.10OKjDvA964774@darkstar.fourwinds.com>
On Sun, Jan 24, 2021 at 12:45:13PM -0800, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> power to kill NeWS. One of the leaders of this was Apollo, and according
> to folks that I knew there, they felt that their networking was better
> than Sun's, but they lost because Sun "gave away" NFS.
Small hijack because I couldn't help it :)
As someone who has used Apollos side by side with Suns (this was before
I went to work at Sun, around 1987), to say Apollos were better at
anything than a Sun was a joke in bad taste. If I remember correctly,
they were both based on 68020s, so same baseline. Apollos just sucked,
their networked file system was slow as molasses. In spite of having
dozens of Apollos available to me, and just one Sun file server, the first
thing I did at that job was to port the cross compiler from Apollo to Sun,
that one machine was faster than anything I could get done on a pile of
Apollos. I hated them.
--lm
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Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-24 16:14 ron minnich
2021-01-24 16:24 ` Michael Kjörling
2021-01-24 17:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 18:36 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:39 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 20:54 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:01 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 23:38 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:18 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 0:36 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-25 0:41 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 20:45 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:11 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-01-24 21:14 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-24 21:22 ` [TUHS] Apollo (was NeWS) Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 21:25 ` [TUHS] tangential unix question: whatever happened to NeWS? Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 22:53 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 23:33 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 0:11 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 0:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-25 14:38 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-25 15:31 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-25 15:55 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 16:04 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 16:37 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-25 16:49 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-25 17:11 ` Bakul Shah
2021-01-25 17:25 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-29 20:24 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-29 20:31 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-25 23:46 ` John Gilmore
2021-01-29 19:53 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-25 22:25 ` Rob Gingell
2021-01-26 1:38 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 3:11 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 3:54 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 5:15 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:52 ` George Michaelson
2021-01-27 5:48 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 6:19 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-27 7:28 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-27 10:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-27 18:32 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2021-01-27 19:26 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-27 15:47 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-27 16:40 ` Stephen Clark
2021-01-26 2:45 ` John Cowan
2021-01-27 19:34 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-29 22:02 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 1:50 ` Nemo Nusquam
2021-01-31 2:42 ` Dave Horsfall
2021-01-30 3:51 ` Richard Salz
2021-01-30 23:20 ` John Cowan
2021-01-25 15:48 ` Henry Bent
2021-01-25 14:33 ` Clem Cole
2021-01-24 23:50 ` Ed Carp
2021-01-24 21:29 ` Al Kossow
2021-01-24 21:53 ` Lars Brinkhoff
2021-02-14 2:04 ` Greg A. Woods
2021-02-14 2:49 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-02-14 4:53 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 18:41 ` Toby Thain
2021-01-24 18:24 ` Dan Cross
2021-01-24 18:42 ` arnold
2021-01-24 19:11 ` Larry McVoy
2021-01-24 21:07 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:10 ` Ronald Natalie
2021-01-24 22:30 ` Rich Morin
2021-01-24 21:16 ` Jon Steinhart
2021-01-28 2:48 Norman Wilson
2021-01-28 9:24 Noel Chiappa
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