8 Sep
2017
8 Sep
'17
11:49 a.m.
For those of you who are or have been users of the Solaris OS, you
should find the following article interesting. Among other things,
it once again points out some of the advantages of open source.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of…
I mention this because there are those who have the impression that
'amprgw' is running on Solaris. It is not; it never has. It ran on the
predecessor, SunOS, for some years, but has been running on FreeBSD for
a long time.
- Brian
8 Sep
8 Sep
12:10 p.m.
I'll always remember SunOS and Solaris. It was my first exposure to Unix
and workstations back in 1993 at C-Cube Microsystems. Later on, Les Kohn
(the silicon architect of UltraSPARC) worked at C-Cube and designed
multimedia chips with SPARC cores. I still have one running VxWorks that
I use as a DVR.
http://www.w6rz.net/sparc.png
Ron W6RZ
On 09/08/2017 08:49 AM, Brian Kantor wrote:
For those of you who are or have been users of the
Solaris OS, you
should find the following article interesting. Among other things,
it once again points out some of the advantages of open source.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of…
I mention this because there are those who have the impression that
'amprgw' is running on Solaris. It is not; it never has. It ran on the
predecessor, SunOS, for some years, but has been running on FreeBSD for
a long time.
- Brian
12:39 p.m.
SPARC instruction mnemonics! There's some assembly I haven't seen in a
long, long time. Somewhere, I still have a hand-coded version of
recursive quicksort I wrote in SPARC assembly.
- Dan C. (AC2OI)
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 12:10 PM, Ron Economos <w6rz(a)comcast.net> wrote:
I'll always remember SunOS and Solaris. It was my
first exposure to Unix and
workstations back in 1993 at C-Cube Microsystems. Later on, Les Kohn (the
silicon architect of UltraSPARC) worked at C-Cube and designed multimedia
chips with SPARC cores. I still have one running VxWorks that I use as a
DVR.
http://www.w6rz.net/sparc.png
Ron W6RZ
On 09/08/2017 08:49 AM, Brian Kantor wrote:
For those of you who are or have been users of the Solaris OS, you
should find the following article interesting. Among other things,
it once again points out some of the advantages of open source.
http://dtrace.org/blogs/bmc/2017/09/04/the-sudden-death-and-eternal-life-of…
I mention this because there are those who have the impression that
'amprgw' is running on Solaris. It is not; it never has. It ran on the
predecessor, SunOS, for some years, but has been running on FreeBSD for
a long time.
- Brian
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1:09 p.m.
On Fri, Sep 8, 2017 at 8:49 AM, Brian Kantor <Brian(a)ucsd.edu> wrote:
For those of you who are or have been users of the
Solaris OS
Would you mind adding "OT" to the subject of threads like this? This
mailing list has been pretty busy lately, and I'm struggling to keep
up. It would help if I had a way to filter out stuff that is unrelated
to 44net.
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