From: pen@lysator.liu.se (Peter Eriksson) Subject: Re: dosemu and windows Date: 2 Jun 1993 14:51:19 GMT
evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans) writes:
>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.
Sorry. Not correct. Even though Solaris 2.1 is big - it's not that big that
it can't be fitted onto a local disk. We have a Sparcstation 1+ running
Solaris 2.1 and it uses 200MB of disk space for root and usr. Solaris 2.1
can run swapless too (if I'm not mistaken - we use swap so I haven't
bothered to check - some news postings I've read claim that it's so)
just like Linux.
Now 200MB is about twice the size of Linux SLS but then, it contains
quite some programs too and they are compiled for a RISC processor ->
bigger binaries.
Just had to mention this. Personally I like Linux a lot.
/Peter