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From: Lepreau@UTAH-20.ARPA (Jay Lepreau)
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Subject: Re: Apollo vs. Sun:  A short comparison
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 12:08:38 EST
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This'll get as bad as 4.2 vs Sys V or equiv if this goes on much more.
But a few corrections:

Debuggers: Mike specifically compared the Apollo debuggers to the Suns's
mulit-window dbxtool, not vanilla dbx.  Have you used that much, JW?

Comittment: Sun recently announced they are joining (some) forces with AT&T
to achieve full Sys V compat.  Also, from your own arguments about using
/com/sh instead of /bin/csh it's obvious that currently Apollo's are very
good native workstations and mediocre Unix ones, and will probably always be
at a disadvantage running Unix as long as it's layered on Aegis.  (Although
their shared libs and filesys could give them a big jump if they could make
fork go faster than a snail.)

Why isn't the lpr stuff distributed, anyway?  It doesn't do anything special,
why can't it just be compiled and run?
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