From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED, DKIM_INVALID,DKIM_SIGNED,FREEMAIL_FROM,MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 349 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2023 18:59:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (50.116.15.146) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 20 Jan 2023 18:59:38 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3A442539; Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:59:02 +1000 (AEST) Received: from mail-lj1-f176.google.com (mail-lj1-f176.google.com [209.85.208.176]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D806E42538 for ; Sat, 21 Jan 2023 04:58:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: by mail-lj1-f176.google.com with SMTP id y9so2771092lji.2 for ; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:58:57 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id:reply-to; bh=3cMuhobuAsIWFxhSGUGEveQphzbj0oASfG8WXCDxKWg=; b=Lf3+9gXaKSJUCatwGgmuj/kSsHaBAzbGxJkaMSaQnVjkkzHj00ZCFAL5d1sCdLOgqP 57BkITE0aAIvkpVquXLYUQMnvk+zkGgBbHGRP29xECLvk2hxRv9BBoO1r7NMutmSegux +D2Qto8Wt28QEquL98OoMmAuZ6aESCOhmmWKUsaBK9JqTKElfufF/1tne9ylySLhPFDB QSteZB8b7n7Z4uA0e6PCUoruHZyy2B9U3IdmZKSv/XSJ9v3tFkvwD1FaY+22rusP9Fi2 5hMnMzhQXVqe8rs9xPdOzgNqvJr1UF3JCznsyzNTxYHZF3Lun32yJN8WX/iIKtQp7GV0 YMww== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=cc:to:subject:message-id:date:from:in-reply-to:references :mime-version:x-gm-message-state:from:to:cc:subject:date:message-id :reply-to; bh=3cMuhobuAsIWFxhSGUGEveQphzbj0oASfG8WXCDxKWg=; b=mxoF9N2VHOdJgK5tkfDuf09Z1UeHg18KC0OE6EBx05huGMEf/bKgLG85i3Xg3wt8zy uKHOF/IH+eUyQNNLR73NSLWHKkfLLSulfjzmV3YB/AN5FA1Mr2DUSvnQ3Br7+cmVVwiy aLlyIOW0ksmj11mK4YOPN3WfkI/A6sFTfORhPWNKk50ciEVMSBBPllZL+j1nJ5EgpZvI Ieali0NxAyhMB8M4OLSQPbI/X28sQLpwd51bIgydDv9/hex60EqCDWRFBZRgLmgfWswT l7MWozW49HbSZzIpvt+vhbQlQQ72aRJsz/h4litFZIK502QMQnzpK/aHoh9YX7OziUZk 6jVg== X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2koL+jXRa1yrtB6DNRRpqKb51NuddeAZS8wYNCAFuMiWqXq1YjVy RP0ccuJ83FL6hA4DdIAy4i1m/LUNYke+qKbG4L0= X-Google-Smtp-Source: AMrXdXuzh4GqY8RcF9sF8O12WDsxVNpEADUxZ2kldUSWATqUqUcn5G6HTAjnc0/WLx9TmrhVuD9dTN9zYzSsV85PhSk= X-Received: by 2002:a2e:8081:0:b0:28b:7b2e:e748 with SMTP id i1-20020a2e8081000000b0028b7b2ee748mr758983ljg.380.1674241076146; Fri, 20 Jan 2023 10:57:56 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 References: <202301180943.30I9hrOw030485@freefriends.org> <202301181513.30IFDDUJ015224@freefriends.org> <20230118151446.GD2964@mcvoy.com> <20230118161959.GE2964@mcvoy.com> <20230119010938.GH28004@mcvoy.com> In-Reply-To: From: Dan Cross Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2023 13:57:19 -0500 Message-ID: To: "Theodore Ts'o" Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Message-ID-Hash: RXQ5VA6O6IMIT6UW6MP7Q7NEY44RIJ55 X-Message-ID-Hash: RXQ5VA6O6IMIT6UW6MP7Q7NEY44RIJ55 X-MailFrom: crossd@gmail.com X-Mailman-Rule-Misses: dmarc-mitigation; no-senders; approved; emergency; loop; banned-address; member-moderation; header-match-tuhs.tuhs.org-0; nonmember-moderation; administrivia; implicit-dest; max-recipients; max-size; news-moderation; no-subject; digests; suspicious-header CC: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society X-Mailman-Version: 3.3.6b1 Precedence: list Subject: [TUHS] Re: AIX moved into maintainance mode List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list Archived-At: List-Archive: List-Help: List-Owner: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Jan 20, 2023 at 1:39 PM Theodore Ts'o wrote: > [snip] > Would Open Solaris been flexible enough to fit on > wrist watches and handheld phones? It's definitely an interesting > question, especially, given Linux would have a head start in those > worlds. Given that those phones and wrist watches are orders of magnitude more powerful in just about every way than the SPARC machines Solaris had been running on at the time, I'd guess the answer to this would be "yes". Whether that would have been the right call from a commercial perspective is the more interesting question. It could certainly have cleared the technology hurdles, though. - Dan C. Last summer, still recovering from the after-effects of a bout of COVID and jetlagged from our last trip to India, we took our kids swimming. I very carefully put my keys and wallet into my bag, and jumped into the deep end of the pool with my older kid...only to almost immediately remember that my phone was in the pocket of my swim trunks. Oops. My trusty Pixel 5 (which I liked very much!) did not survive. A new Pixel 6 came a few days later. It struck me, looking at its specs, that it was more powerful in every dimension than the IBM ES/3090-600S I used briefly in the early 1990s...and that machine routinely supported 1,000 interactive timesharing users under VM/ESA! It certainly blew the few UltraSPARC machines I still have down in the basement away. I haven't benchmarked it, but I imagine even the IO performance is better.