SunOS 4.1
Ashok Kumar A. Segu
aksegu at uts.amdahl.com
Thu Dec 21 04:04:58 AEST 1989
In article <3725 at brazos.Rice.edu>, trichard at orion.cair.du.edu.UUCP (Thomas Richardson) writes:
> In article <3329 at brazos.Rice.edu> mm!ken at gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
> |
> |Anyone have a sort-of, maybe, kinda, ballpark idea when SunOS 4.1
> |might hit the streets?
>
> A support person at Sun said it was just going into a Beta phase. He
> estimated that it would be another 3 months or so.
>
> Thomas Richardson
According to UNIX TODAY (12/11/89) Sun might introduced SunOS 4.1 at
UniForum, but its availability might not be until the spring.
Here are some of SunOS 4.1 release plan's highlights:-
o It is to be fully compatible with POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1, X/Open's
XPG2 and most of X/Open's XPG3 and SVID Issue 2.
o The number of file descriptors has increased to 256 from 64, with a Sun
promise of "even more in the next release."
o The introduction of an adaptive NFS retransmission which, among other
things, allows the system to distinguish between a network that is slow
from one that is down.
o SunOS's internal version has been eliminated, with one version now to
be used throughout the world.
o SunOS 4.1 has eliminated the "forced write" semantic, thus allowing
files with short lifetimes to remain in memory.
-Ashok Segu
aksegu at uts.amdahl.com
....!uts.amdahl.com!aksegu
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