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Slowlaris
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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/slo'lahris/ , n. [Usenet; poss. from the variety of prosimian called a slow
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loris. The variant Slowlartus is also common, related to LART ] Common
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hackish term for Solaris, Sun's System VR4 version of Unix that came out of
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the standardization wars of the early 1990s. So named because especially on
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older hardware, responsiveness was much less crisp than under the preceding
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SunOS. Early releases of Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some marketroid s
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at Sun retroactively rechristened SunOS as Solaris 1) were quite buggy, and
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Sun was forced by customer demand to support SunOS for quite some time.
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Newer versions are acknowledged to be among the best commercial Unix
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variants in 1998, but still lose single-processor benchmarks to Sparc Linux.
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Compare HP-SUX , sun-stools.
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