As someone who had to endure the harsh criticisms from the user community 
when SunOS 4.x was _soooo_ much slower than SunOS 3.5 (remember that one?). 
I was forced to work on a 4MB Sun 3/50 and let me tell you it makes you 
think optimization every day! The good news is that Sun learned a lot about 
kernel performance that helped SunOS tremendously. If Dan Walsh ever reads 
this he is the guy that "made it happen" as far as I was concerned (did the 
benchmarks, identified hot spots, called attention to them etc)

--Chuck

At 07:05 PM 1/23/01 +0100, Pierre-Michel Ricordel wrote:
> >
> > this is a big one. these machines are no sluggish toys- they were the
> > seriousest of serious hardware for a long time, and theres no fundamental
> > reason why theyre no longer capable now of what they could handle with
> > ease 10 or 15 years ago. BSD was largely developed on a VAX 11/750 with
> > 4 MB of memory.
>
>About that, but on other platforms, I am always amazed by the fluidity
>of SunOS 4.1 on a 4MB, diskless Sun 3/60, served by another old SunOS box.
>On the other side, I could not be able to compile the NetBSD 1.5 kernel
>in a finite time with a 8MB diskless Sparc.
>I think the 1.5 bloat will begin to be more and more visible to other ports
>too.
>(maybe the m68k-based ones ?)
>
>PM