Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.sys.hp.hpux Path: usenet.ee.pdx.edu!cs.uoregon.edu!reuter.cse.ogi.edu!psgrain!rainrgnews0!pacifier!news.alpha.net!MathWorks.Com!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!news1.oakland.edu!rcsuna.gmr.com!kocrsv01!koicds01!tvmyers From: tvmyers@koicds01.icdc.delcoelect.com (Thomas V. Myers) Subject: Re: HP/UX vs. Solaris Kernels: Fully Multi-threaded, or what? Sender: news@icdc.delcoelect.com (News Manager) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 8 Aug 1994 21:10:26 GMT References: <1994Jul15.124519.18464@ibx.com> <31p3jf$adq@news.u.washington.edu> <31ppp2$h53@news.cerf.net> <324g19$kg9@news.cerf.net> Organization: Frodo Was Here X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Followup-To: comp.sys.pc.unix Lines: 31 Xref: usenet.ee.pdx.edu comp.sys.sun.admin:28708 comp.sys.hp.hpux:11703 Tony Burzio (aetc@nic.cerf.net) wrote: > In article s9ubxt@almserv.uucp (Ben Taylor) writes: > >All I hear you complaining about is that you have to look at a manual > >to setup the "infinite" range of hardware that is available for the > >PC. If thats too hard, maybe you should go back to programming, > You list several ports of setting up a PC, but you missed the one > that I listed (probably because you don't understand the internals of > the PC chip and the concept of memory remapping). It's not your fault > because there are darn few book that even mention the problem, but knowing > about it certainly can let one *understand* what is going wrong with > a testy PC, instead of lighting incense and praying to the computer > daemon :-) > Besides, most PCs don't come with hardware manuals any more :-( > >All the Unices I have ever worked with have needed the specification > >for Interrupts, Shared Memory, I/O address and DMA. While you may not > Buzzzt! Wrong! Try again! There is one teeeeny little thing missing... > >a manual on the hardware or software you had. It sounds like you're > >spoiled using an HP and complaining PC's arent HP. Join the real world. Even though somebody finally mentioned HP again, could you take this little discussion somewhere besides the HP-UX and Sun-Admin newsgroups? It hasn't had anything to do with the subject for at least a week. Thanks, Tom -- Tom Myers : tvmyers@icdc.delcoelect.com