Re: Re: Perfomance problem backupscript (more details and tests)

On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 12:59, [email protected] wrote:
> Hey, that cannot be left uncontradicted ! :))
> 
> > In 1993 (the time when Solaris-2.4 was recent), Linux was completely 
> > unuseable
> 
> It was adventurous, but the first successful port of my former
> employer's CAD package to Linux 0.99 was operational in the last
> weeks of 1993.

It could be done with slackware somewhere back then, but you had
to really work at it until the RedHat release that installed
mostly automatically on most machines and mostly worked... By
4.0 in 1996 it was a match for the commercial unix versions of
the day.

> We came from HP|SUN|SGI|IBM workstations and therefore
> had certain minimum requirements to fulfill.
> 
> 
> > At that time, Pentium CPUs have been _boringly_ slow....
> 
> Actually already 80486 came quite near to the performance
> of the SPARC CPUs of that time. Pentium then caught up
> with performance-per-MHz and pulled away with the MHz.

Dell had a really nice 80486 port of SysVr4 back then.  It was
the first I had seen where generic devices 'just worked'
instead of having the vendor's selection hardcoded somewhere
to lock you in (like AT&T's own release).

Oddly enough all mention and support for it disappeared just
when Windows95 was released.  Coincidence?

BSDI was around in that time frame too - but the differences from
SysV were enough to drive you crazy.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     [email protected]