Rants and raves about workstation vendors

[Constantinos A. Kotsokalis]

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000 22:43:53 +0300, Christos Ricudis wrote:
>SUN : O,ti pio sobaro yparxei, kata th gnwmh moy. Aksiopisto hardware kai kalo
>software, ektos an tyxei na peseis sthn periptwsh. To administration toy
>Solaris einai strwto kai hpio, kai den synantas idiaitera problhmata. O,ti
>psaxneis na breis einai panw-katw ekei poy perimeneis na to breis. Osoi
>diafwnoyn me thn apopsh moy, as diabasoyn parakatw :>

Kalo hardware, alla to PCI se sparc den mou polyarese (afenos men)
kai epipleon otan 3efygeis apo workstations/mini servers kai pas
se hardware gia alla pragmata (i.e. raid controllers) ta pragmata
den einai poly an8hra (afeterou de :-))
Oson afora sto software, exw poly kalh apopsh gia to Solaris an
kai merikes fores to exw dei na kanei kai auto trella pragmata
- I can elaborate if you wish.

>SGI : Problhmata me to hardware toys den eixa. 8a'8ela omws na hksera ti
>akribws epinan oi typoi poy eftiaksan to Irix. Gia na to diapistwsete,
>ksypnhste ena wraio prwi kai psakste na breite poy krybetai h entolh ifconfig.
>An sas fanei logiko, deite poy brisketai h df, kai meta prospa8hste na
>katalabete th synolikh logikh twn developers tou Irix afou diapistwsete poy
>exoun topo8ethsei thn telnet. An den sas exei piasei akoma ponokefalos,
>prospa8hste na egkatasthsete thn GNU C. Kalhnyxta sas. 

Kai oxi mono auto: To Irix 8a mporousa na to paromoiasw me...
graviera. Mpazei apo pantou.

>HP : Dokimaste na egkatasthsete HP-UX 10.20 (den trexoyn oloi 11, for a variety
>of reasons). Dokimaste na allakete to default disk space allocation. Gia added
>flavour, dokimaste na kanete remote install to HP-UX apo opoiodhpote allo UNIX.
>Afou telika kataferete na to egkatasthsete (kai an), dokimaste na to
>xrhsimopoihsete. For added flavour, kante ena HP-UX print server. 

Dyskolo, poly dyskolo leitourgiko, alla gamosta8ero. Exw dei ena
mhxanaki na trexei HP/UX-10.20 pou les ki esy, me omades prwtoetwn
filodo3wn programmatistaradwn na tou ta kanoun ola 5 days a week,
oles tis weeks tou e3amhnou. Otan lew na tou ta kanoun ola, ennow
TAUTOXRONWS apo ta termatika pou peftan panw tou (24 termatika se
ypologisth tou 92 an 8ymamai kala, twra peri arxitektonikhs 8a se
gelasw). E, auto to mhxanhma doulebe seri gia 6.5 mhnes mexri pou
to kleisame gia synthrhsh.
An 3erw kala (pou mporei na mhn 3erw) paei kala kai apo 8emata
security, swsta?

>IBM : Kante boot ena RS/6000. Dokimaste na epilysete OPOIODHPOTE problhma
>mporei na emfanistei prin shkw8ei to AIX se multiuser mode. For added flavour,
>prospa8hste na katalabete ti kanei to mhxanhma s'olo ayto to diasthma (hint: 3
>digit display). Afou telika shkw8ei to systhma, dokimaste na kanete OPOIODHPOTE
>synh8ismeno admin task xwris na xrhsimopoihsete to SMIT, h dokimaste na kanete
>otidhpote den perilambanoun ta menus toy SMIT. Den xreiazetai na psaksete gia
>maxairi, mporeite na kopsete tis flebes sas me to kleidi toy systhmatos.

Den exw idea...

>DEC : Psakste na breite pws onomazoyn to leitourgiko toys ayth thn ebdomada. 

Auto pou 8ymamai apo 1-2 fores pou doulepsa se ena tetoio, einai oti:
1. gia na compilarw ena mikro programma pou h8ela mou evgale thn pisth
2. Ta DEC exoun (opws kai ta HP APARADEKTA keyboards :-))
3. Ekane number-crunching sta epipeda pou oi alloi den gnwrizan akoma.

>#include <stddisc.h> : Oxi, den me plhrwnei h SUN. 

Kanenan mas den plhrwnoun, alla oloi SUN protimame ;-)

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National Technical University of Athens - ECE Dept.
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