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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Slowlaris</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="slopsucker.html" title="slopsucker"/><link rel="next" href="slurp.html" title="slurp"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Slowlaris</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slopsucker.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slurp.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Slowlaris"/><dt xmlns="" id="Slowlaris"><b>Slowlaris</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/slo'·lahr·is/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [Usenet; poss. from the variety of prosimian called a “<span class="quote">slow
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loris</span>”. The variant ‘Slowlartus’ is also common, related
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to <a href="../L/LART.html"><i class="glossterm">LART</i></a>] Common hackish term for Solaris, Sun's
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System VR4 version of Unix that came out of the standardization wars of the
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early 1990s. So named because especially on older hardware, responsiveness
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was much less crisp than under the preceding SunOS. Early releases of
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Solaris (that is, Solaris 2, as some <a href="../M/marketroid.html"><i class="glossterm">marketroid</i></a>s at
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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
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time. 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
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<a href="../L/Linux.html"><i class="glossterm">Linux</i></a>. Compare <a href="../H/HP-SUX.html"><i class="glossterm">HP-SUX</i></a>,
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<a href="sun-stools.html"><i class="glossterm">sun-stools</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="slopsucker.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="slurp.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">slopsucker </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> slurp</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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