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@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@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@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.
>>
>>
>>