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From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>
Cc: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] moving directories in svr2
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 15:44:11 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220103234411.GA19828@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdOFDyNfwpi1jjeS@geeks.org>

On Mon, Jan 03, 2022 at 05:21:51PM -0600, Doug McIntyre 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@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.

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 81+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-30  3:45 Noel Chiappa
2021-12-30  4:02 ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-30 16:40 ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-30 22:31   ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31  0:43     ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-31  1:00       ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31  1:45         ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-31  2:23           ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-31 18:56       ` Chet Ramey
2021-12-31  3:08     ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-31  3:23       ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31  5:16         ` Theodore Ts'o
2021-12-31  5:21           ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31  5:55           ` Rob Pike
2021-12-31 13:32             ` Michael Kjörling
2021-12-31 15:53               ` Adam Thornton
2021-12-31 16:13                 ` Arthur Krewat
2021-12-31 18:17                 ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31 18:23                   ` Larry McVoy
2021-12-31 18:37                     ` Dan Cross
2021-12-31 18:29                   ` Arthur Krewat
2022-01-01  0:09                   ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 13:35                     ` Dan Cross
2022-01-03 20:23                       ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 20:45                         ` Warner Losh
2022-01-03 21:15                         ` Dan Cross
2022-01-03 22:26                           ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-03 23:10                             ` Dan Cross
2022-01-04 15:45                             ` Chet Ramey
2022-01-09 19:28                             ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-03 23:21                           ` Doug McIntyre
2022-01-03 23:37                             ` Adam Thornton
2022-01-04 14:49                               ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-01-03 23:44                             ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2022-01-03 23:56                               ` [TUHS] SMP: BSD vs System V (once was: moving directories in svr2) Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2022-01-07 19:01                                 ` Warner Losh
2022-01-09 17:31                                 ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-01-13  2:35                                 ` Kevin Bowling
2022-01-03 23:56                               ` [TUHS] moving directories in svr2 Warner Losh
2022-01-04  2:28                               ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-01-04  2:42                                 ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-04  9:28                                 ` [TUHS] Mythical Distress Sale (was Re: moving directories in svr2) Rob Gingell
2022-01-04 15:17                                   ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-04 15:26                                     ` arnold
2022-01-04 15:40                                       ` Larry McVoy
2022-01-04 15:48                                         ` Richard Salz
2022-01-03 22:57                         ` [TUHS] moving directories in svr2 Phil Budne
2022-01-04 15:40                         ` [TUHS] VRFs (was Re: moving directories in svr2) Derek Fawcus
2021-12-31  5:12       ` [TUHS] moving directories in svr2 Bakul Shah
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-12-29 19:33 Noel Chiappa
2021-12-30  3:40 ` Jay Logue via TUHS
2021-12-29 19:13 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-29 19:37 ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 20:15   ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 20:42     ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 20:58       ` Dan Cross
2021-12-29 21:20         ` Clem Cole
2021-12-30  3:15       ` Bakul Shah
2021-12-29 17:12 Douglas McIlroy
2021-12-29 16:59 Bakul Shah
2021-12-29 17:04 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 17:14 ` arnold
2021-12-29 17:38   ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 17:49     ` Brantley Coile
2021-12-29 18:27       ` ron minnich
2021-12-29 20:59         ` Rob Pike
2021-12-29 14:33 Will Senn
2021-12-29 15:02 ` arnold
2021-12-29 15:38   ` Will Senn
2021-12-29 15:44     ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 16:17       ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 16:58         ` Richard Salz
2021-12-30  5:14         ` Dan Stromberg
2021-12-30 16:22           ` Clem Cole
2021-12-30 18:02           ` John Cowan
2021-12-30 23:04             ` Richard Salz
2021-12-29 15:17 ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 15:44   ` Will Senn
2021-12-29 16:10     ` Clem Cole
2021-12-29 16:33       ` Warner Losh
2021-12-29 16:01   ` Bakul Shah

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