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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2006 20:23:39 +1000
From:      Peter Jeremy <peterjeremy@optushome.com.au>
To:        Allen <slackwarewolf@comcast.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Zero Copy, FreeBSD and Linus Torvalds opinion
Message-ID:  <20060502102339.GB693@turion.vk2pj.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200605011801.01529.slackwarewolf@comcast.net>
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On Mon, 2006-May-01 18:01:01 -0400, Allen wrote:
>Man I would LOVE to find a good sun box. Nothing huge, just a box I can use to
>toy with Solaris and oldschool stuff like early SunOS.

This won't be one box.  Sun hardware and software has undergone a lot of
churn over the years and you will need to find a box to suit the SunOS
or Solaris version that you want to run.

> Just want at least one UNIX box in the house.

*BSD is Unix in all but branding.  Or you can run Solaris 10 on a PC.

>> Well.. Sun at some point took 4.1.3 and 4.1.4 into the Solaris naming
>> scheme.  Just confusing to a lot of people.
>
>Software naming has always been a pain ;)

Especially when the marketing people get involved...

-- 
Peter Jeremy



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