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- From: pmorris@chessie.East.Sun.COM (Phillip Morris - SE Vienna Va.)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Comparison of Alpha, MIPS and PA-RISC-
- Date: 21 Dec 1992 20:24:53 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- Lines: 47
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- References: <BzGn32.37C@dscomsa.desy.de>
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- In article 37C@dscomsa.desy.de, hallam@zeus02.desy.de (Phill Hallam-Baker) writes:
- >
- >Bugs they still need to fix:-
- >
- > 1) Online manual still designed with aim of minimizing disk space rather than
- >providing information.
-
- Try out Sun's Answerbook technology (will take up over 200MB of disk if you install
- the whole thing), with hyper-text links throughout, a great search facility, etc.
-
- > 2) No help facility.
-
- Almost every vendor now has a help viewer pop-up in their windows environment. For
- Suns, just hit the Help key (if you haven't disable it) while in Openwindows.
-
- > 3) No standardized user firendly shell.
-
- What's a user-friendly shell? There sure are plenty to choose from, take your pick from
- sh, csh, ksh, tcsh, bash, etc.
-
- > 4) Command qualifiers hard coded into applications making multilanguage
- >customization impossible.
-
- Take a look at Solaris 2.1 -- it has extensive I18N (internationalization) support
- at both the O/S and the programmer's levels.
-
- > 5) Requires expensive expert to have a chance of any security.
-
- Sun's CMW (shipping in volume as of 12/17/92) only needs a regular admin and a
- security officer (who is required for any secure facility anyhow), and is being
- evaluated for the DISA CMW (B2+ security).
-
- > 6) File system limited to sequential file, forcing applications to create their
- >own file system on top of the UNIX one, thus preventing any standardization or
- >application independent optimization.
-
- Almost every Unix implementation now has many optimizations built-in, such as write
- clustering, SCSI tag-queuing, etc. You can also create holey files. Striping (both
- via h/w and s/w) is abundantly available. What type of file I/O are you complaining
- about the lack of?
-
- >Phill Hallam-Baker
-
- -Phil Morris
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