Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:10:29 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican <webmaster@wmptl.com> To: hornback@wireco.net Cc: vallo@matti.ee, keith@mail.telestream.com, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question Message-ID: <398AB2B5.48390030@wmptl.com> References: <009001bffda4$fa73cc20$d4776bce@challenger>
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"Andrew C. Hornback" wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Tony Rini - > > System Administrator > > Sent: Thursday, August 03, 2000 4:42 PM > > To: vallo@matti.ee > > Cc: keith@mail.telestream.com; Damon Hammis; > > freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG > > Subject: Re: Off Topic Solaris question > > [snip] > > > I work with tons of servers. I inherited a motley collection of OS's, > > platforms, etc. > > Sounds like my last job... give a kid the letters MCSE, a budget and no > responsibility, and see what he comes up with... definately not a work of > art. > > > I have experimented with multiple combinations. I have > > to give Sun my respect for the tight integration of OS and > > hardware. The > > SCSI bus architecture and multiple RISC processors is IMHO far better > > than anything I've seen Intel's camp produce. > > Absolutely. They knew what they were doing... of course, the majority of > the engineering that went into the SPARC platform was done about 10 years > ago, and just been updated for performance over the years. It's not like > the Intel architecture where we've seen ISA, EISA, MCA, VLB and PCI all > within the past 10 years. > > > Of course I am only > > speaking of the SPARC platform. To try to run anything but Solaris (or > > Sun OS) on a SPARC is just asking for headaches. Trying to run Solaris > > on x86 will yield similar results. > > It's one of those cases where opposites don't attract. There's just > something unnatural about running something aside from Solaris on a SPARC > box. > > [snip] > > > Sun > > hardware, while being extrememly expensive, is also extremely > > reliable. > > Amen to that. I've got a couple of Sparc2s that were built back in the > first half of 91 that are still trucking along without a whimper. You'd be > hard pressed to see an Intel box from the same era still doing useful work > without major upgrades. > > [snip] > > > Both serve their purposes very well. If you must learn Solaris do > > yourself a favor and learn it on a Sparc. The differences are just too > > great. > > There aren't that many major differences from one to the other, as far as > the OS goes. It's not the OS's fault that x86 hardware isn't as accepting > and isn't quite as well supported as SPARC hardware. The day that SUN > starts building x86 machines en masse is the day that you'll see that > happen. > > --- Andy > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Ever try OpenBSD/SPARC, no complaints therein. I think you're both jumping to a bad conclusion regaarding running nothing but Solairs on a Sparc box. LOL, I had one guy with his MSCE try to convince me that M$ has made a version of NT to run on /Sparc - if it were true that might yeild your conclusion. -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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