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From: rwhite@nusdhub.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: sysVr3.0 vs. sysVr3.1
Message-ID: <167@nusdhub.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 04:27:23 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct 22 04:27:23 1987
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Summary: A total guess on the difference between SVR3 and SVR3.1

In article <2672@dalcs.UUCP>, david@dalcs.UUCP (David Trueman) writes:
> I am wondering whether anyone could discuss the differences between
> System V release 3.0 and release 3.1.  AT&T wants twice the price for
> the newer release. 

	This is an educated guess on the differences.  We receiently
purchased a 3B2/600.  This machine was advertised to us [the world]
as a network engine.  We also have a 3B2/310 which is still running
SVR2.0.4 [because of a software compatibility problem with the new
release of UNIX.  [Should be solved in a couple of weeks]  But this
whole buisness gave me a somewhat front seat of the revisions.

3.0 was provided with the hooks necessary to attach STREAMS devices
	in order to attach networks and such to the computer.  The 3.0
	implementations were too slow, much of the computer's time was
	eaten up processing aganinst the drivers instead of the user
	processes.  Starting with 3.0 all the "standard" innerds and
	secondary programs support full eight bit characters, i.e.
	it was "certified" and provided with a new version of awk.

3.0 Virtual paging was implemented somewhare in here.

3.1 was provided with tighter STREAMS interface.

3.1 has a "STREAMS service routine swapper" I beleive that this is
	part of having the tighter interface.  This may have been in
	3.0, but I dont think so.

	Whe we first got the 3B2/600, we did not have the network
software we wanted.  I came in later [planed].  The system came with
UNIX already installed.  We ran with this pre installed version
for quite a while.
	When the network software arrived, a stupid blunder on my part
removed one of the primary system service files from the hard disk.  I
craked the seal on my UNIX system Distribution tape, and did a partial
restore.
	Whatever was on our system was not 3.1.1 [the extra 1 designating
it for the 600]  I dont know what verson it was, little things like
the diagnostic monitor would not run after the tape rewrote the /unix
et al.  I booted up and saved the irreplacable stuff, and then reinstalled
the system from scratch.
	The system "found" about 100meg in a partition that nobody had
ever noticed we had lost.  [the system wasn't getting much use without
the network software]  The system is easily running twice as fast.  It
dosn't even blink at network opperations.  I don't know what the
previous version/revision was, as I didn't notice it before the change
and after the change it was gone, but it is quite an improvment.

There are a few things I have noticed:

1) If I load the C compiler for 3.0 on, it screws up all sorts of stuff:
	a) The tape drive light comes on at re-boot, and stays on till
	first use, then acts normally.
	b) Things compiled with it often fail some functins like memory
	alocation.  [I had to compile the news software on the 310
	and move the objects over]  These failures are not consistant,
	such as you could play nethack as anything but a knight???

2) The first time you do a "ps" after the machine has just been booted,
	or it has stood idle for a while [running] It takes 2 or 3 times
	longer than if you have done one receiently. [1 hour or so]

I'll look for other differences, especially when we move the 310 up
to 3.0 [not 3.1, these software things seem to move in little bits.]

Rob.