From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: Wed, 2 Jun 1993 11:13:54 GMT
Jim McCoy (mccoy@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu) wrote:
: it/proting it. Sun wants this standard to become as widespread as possible
: to help Solaris (if the WABI becomes the standard the MS can't use
The thing is that solaris is a pig as it is when it comes to memory and
disk space.
Theoretically a sun Classic 16M ram 200M high speed (10M/S) disk running
Solaris, should beat a 486/33 8M ram 100M PC running Linux.
The Linux machine comes a rather close second.
And out performs the sun in some ways, like not needing a large fileserver
for the rest of the operating system (the sun 200M is just root partition
and swap, the Linux machine has all its binarys on local disk) and
getting X up in less time than it takes to boil a kettle and drink the
tea.