lcuff@spectrum.cmc.com (Leonard Cuff) (10/10/90)
will be soon. Company names and addresses, the hardware it runs on, and the state of the software (Beta, production, whatever). Guesses at dates of upcoming releases. I am also interested in any opinions people using SVR4 systems have about SVR4. Please email me info and I'll post a summary to the net if people express interest. -- Leonard Cuff if ( my_words == Rockwells_words ) lcuff@cmc.com hell_freezes_over = now; "I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages" - Bill Mauldin
rembo@unisoft.com (Tony Rems) (10/13/90)
In article <2150@megadon.UUCP> you write: >will be soon. Company names and addresses, the hardware it runs >on, and the state of the software (Beta, production, whatever). >Guesses at dates of upcoming releases. I am also interested >in any opinions people using SVR4 systems have about SVR4. > >Please email me info and I'll post a summary to the net if people >express interest. > >-- >Leonard Cuff if ( my_words == Rockwells_words ) >lcuff@cmc.com hell_freezes_over = now; > >"I feel like a fugitive from th' law of averages" - Bill Mauldin Well, here at Unisoft, we port SVR4 and we do POSIX and ABI standards for it. I have used and hacked the SVR4 system quite extensively and I have mixed feelings about it. I think they have done just about everything, however I think it may be to much. It's almost inconceivable that anyone could ever know all of it. It's a massive unwieldy beast. However, it is nice to have the ability to use whatever filesystem you like. Also, it's nice to be able to choose between sockets and TLI/Streams. One of the drawbacks though is a *huge* kernel. I'ts a real dog on 5 Mg of RAM which makes life tough for people with PC's or small workstations. At least it appears that all the SVR4 people are attempting to conform to the UI/ABI POSIX standards so that a consistent interface will be easy to find. If you have any more specific questions, drop me a line. -Tony
rembo@unisoft.com (Tony Rems) (10/17/90)
>will be soon. Company names and addresses, the hardware it runs >on, and the state of the software (Beta, production, whatever). >Guesses at dates of upcoming releases. I am also interested >in any opinions people using SVR4 systems have about SVR4. > >Please email me info and I'll post a summary to the net if people >express interest. > >Leonard Cuff if ( my_words == Rockwells_words ) >lcuff@cmc.com hell_freezes_over = now; Well, here at Unisoft, we port SVR4 and we do POSIX and ABI standards for it. I have used and hacked the SVR4 system quite extensively and I have mixed feelings about it. I think they have done just about everything, however I think it may be to much. It's almost inconceivable that anyone could ever know all of it. It's a massive unwieldy beast. However, it is nice to have the ability to use whatever filesystem you like. Also, it's nice to be able to choose between sockets and TLI/Streams. One of the drawbacks though is a *huge* kernel. I'ts a real dog on 5 Mg of RAM which makes life tough for people with PC's or small workstations. At least it appears that all the SVR4 people are attempting to conform to the UI/ABI POSIX standards so that a consistent interface will be easy to find. If you have any more specific questions, drop me a line. -Tony