Re: Sun's Perl was Re: Application servers and e-commerce platforms

[Dominic Mitchell]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 10:35:45AM +0000, Steve Mynott wrote:
> I suspect things like SMP probably still work better.  And if I were
> on call supporting a server I would probably still trust a Sparc
> running Solaris over some dodgy PC desktop with Redhat stuck on it by
> a hobbyist who has never used another UNIX.

Multi processor Solaris runs rings around any of the free Unixes.
They've had kernel threads for nearly 10 years, and it's very optimized.

I suspect that SGIs IRIX is equally good, but I have no experience of
that to speak from.

-Dom