On 05/08/2017 07:22 PM, william degnan via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
At that level, it's bog-standard 4.3BSD UNIX in nearly every way. (with a MACH kernel underneath, of course)
Dave - compared with SGI UNIX, which do you prefer? Roughly comparing same date versions, not the latest SGI.
I adminned them both for a very long time; I can't say I have much of a preference. One is just about as bad as the other as far as porting software to it in the "all the world's a VAX" era. That hasn't gotten much better in the "all the world's a PC running Linux" era, though the meteoric ascent of ARM9 is improving that somewhat, teaching these kids that software really does need to be portable. But also, one was just about as good as the other for being reliable, usable, manageable, and predictable, and for being UNIX. (pretty much the same thing) SGI's compilers were always better, and for a server with serious I/O requirements the big hairy balls of an Origin 2000 just couldn't be beat in those days. (decidedly nontrivial to beat nowadays too, actually) NeXT never had a server offering, and while I used workstations (like everyone else), I was managing a datacenter full of servers, not workstations. -Dave -- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA