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What Sun got wrong

692 points · 437 comments · chmaynard

  1. flanked-evergl · · focus · HN ↗
    Solaris was worse than Linux, and SPARC was worse than Intel. A lot worse.

    Even ZFS was way better integrated with the Linux kernel even while Solaris was supposedly maintained.

    1. toolslive · · focus · HN ↗
      it was called "Slow arse". This was because it was rather reluctant in handing out resources (memory fe). Having fought it, I remember the system APIs being really well defined and picky (which was good). At one point, the C compiler had some identity issues "am I 32 bit, or 64 bit?"
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