> > >> quite frankly .. get the CDROM and boot it. Most > >> likely it will work well > >> enough. > > you have written a great huge reply and I really > enjoy seeing someone else > do that than just me :-) > > firstly .. I have a nice long reply also but I'm > stuck doing some work > here. So I'll have to put that off to tomorrow. You > have touched my heart > however with the very mention of Apollo systems. I > started doing > programming work, the paid contract kind, back in the > 80's on the Apollo > machines and like a young man with his first car I > loved the DN10000. It > was an amazing system at the time.
Yeah, the typed file handlers that could impose their own semantics were kind of neat. A system level version control capability was an optional product that took advantage of that (DSEE) and was the ancestor of ClearCase. And the way the nodes just worked together transparently...wow. But they were sooo secretive and closed about not only their code but their protocols. HP took some of the technology, IBM ended up with a fair bit (DCE/DFS descends in part from there too I think), and otherwise a good product died as a result. I do remember that the combination of Unix and Aegis privilege mechanisms led to some interesting issues; I seem to recall exploiting that to get either locksmith or root (project locksmith being as privileged as user root), but I don't remember the details any more. > As for Solaris and the whole "does it work here" > situation .. the best > thing that I have seen in a long long long time that > really helps to > answer the question is the Sun Device Detection Tool. > I blogged about it > well over a year ago and it really does a nice job of > telling you what you > can expect for a given pile of hardware. That's quite true - it's probably often more helpful than the HCL, and unfortunately the sort of thing I'd likely not remember to mention since aside from my Mac (which encourages one to ignore those depths of it one isn't actively using at the moment), I rarely use x86 hardware. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
