Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1998 22:36:25 +1000 From: chris/reman <z2172268@student.unsw.edu.au> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Nick Hibma <nick.hibma@jrc.it>, Josef Grosch <jgrosch@mooseriver.com>, FreeBSD-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solaris is free. Message-ID: <35D2DDC9.11FFCA15@student.unsw.edu.au> References: <Pine.GSO.3.95q.980812110325.19133O-100000@elect8> <35D1A991.26389012@student.unsw.edu.au> <19980813123222.L496@lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > (following up in -chat) > > On Thursday, 13 August 1998 at 0:41:21 +1000, chris/reman wrote: > > Nick Hibma wrote: > > > >> To be honest, x86 SOlaris has always been a bit a forgotten child in the > >> Sun family. Sun likes to ship complete systems they can reliably > >> support. Giving supports to PC weenies is not one of their favourite > >> hobbies. > > > > Thats funny, because the uni. where I am at (UNSW, Sydney) the comp sci labs were > > originally running (and still is) a mix of decstations and labtams running SunOS, > > when they redid their workstations upstairs they bought p200's and stuck x86 > > SunOS on them, weird eh. > > Interesting. I wonder if that felt more like SunOS 4 than FreeBSD Funnily enough when I set FreeBSD up at home, I whacked Xwindows and Afterstep on it, it looked exactly the same except my comp was a 486 66 with 24 Mb RAM, and it was going only slightly slower that these beasts p200 + 64 megs, then when I upgraded to a 686 166 + 32megs woooooooo it flew. I can definately see why people prefer FreeBSD over SunOS or solaris regards, chris -- Christopher Day E-Mail the_reman@hotmail.com Homepage http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Lair/1218 when the rain/when the children reign/keep your conscience in the dark melt the statues in the park - Fall On Me, REM To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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