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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