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From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: Doug McIntyre <merlyn@geeks.org>,
	The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] moving directories in svr2
Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 16:37:55 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic0jGZahwNno50iPp271G2xfWLsmhO1yDsLQcP1uHcXUVQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YdOFDyNfwpi1jjeS@geeks.org>

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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.
>
>
>

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  reply	other threads:[~2022-01-03 23:38 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 [this message]
2022-01-04 14:49                               ` Stuart Remphrey
2022-01-03 23:44                             ` Larry McVoy
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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