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- From: stanonik@nprdc.navy.mil (Ron Stanonik)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: Re: Is Sun losing touch with its customers?
- Message-ID: <42065@arctic.nprdc.navy.mil>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 17:39:21 GMT
- References: <1992Dec22.080719.16062@eskimo.com> <1992Dec27.031931.10598@eskimo.com> <1992Dec28.184729.17486@eskimo.com>
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- Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center
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- The biggest loss I see is the work accumulated in source archives,
- much (%?) of which was written for BSD/SunOS. Yes, SVR4 includes
- a Berkeley compatibility library ... which works sometimes (speaking
- of SVR4, haven't tried recompiling on Solaris2.x yet).
-
- In article <1992Dec28.184729.17486@eskimo.com> johnn@eskimo.com (John Navitsky) writes:
- >Solaris 2.x will continue to improve. I really think that
- >Solaris 2.x > System VR4, not Solaris 2.x = System VR4.
-
- So, all SVR4's won't be the same.
- Solaris2.x has modload, SVR4 doesn't.
- SVR4.2 seems to promise Novell included. Will Solaris track SVR4.2?
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- Our experience is that SVR4 (from AT&T Federal Systems Division
- for 3B2 RISC machines) has a lot of broken Berkeley derived code.
- Not surprising, perhaps, given that the market is folks upgrading
- from SVR3, who won't miss the Berkeley code. Solaris2.x has most
- of the Berkeley derived code working. Will SVR4 track fixes from
- Solaris?
-
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- Ron Stanonik
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