SunOS 4.1

[Ashok Kumar A. Segu]

In article <3725 at brazos.Rice.edu>, trichard at orion.cair.du.edu.UUCP (Thomas Richardson) writes:
> In article <3329 at brazos.Rice.edu> mm!ken at gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii) writes:
> |
> |Anyone have a sort-of, maybe, kinda, ballpark idea when SunOS 4.1
> |might hit the streets?
> 
> A support person at Sun said it was just going into a Beta phase.  He
> estimated that it would be another 3 months or so.
> 
> Thomas Richardson

According to UNIX TODAY (12/11/89) Sun might introduced SunOS 4.1 at
UniForum, but its availability might not be until the spring.

Here are some of SunOS 4.1 release plan's highlights:-

o  It is to be fully compatible with POSIX 1003.1, FIPS 151-1, X/Open's
   XPG2 and most of X/Open's XPG3 and SVID Issue 2.

o  The number of file descriptors has increased to 256 from 64, with a Sun
   promise of "even more in the next release."

o  The introduction of an adaptive NFS retransmission which, among other
   things, allows the system to distinguish between a network that is slow
   from one that is down.

o  SunOS's internal version has been eliminated, with one version now to
   be used throughout the world.

o  SunOS 4.1 has eliminated the "forced write" semantic, thus allowing
   files with short lifetimes to remain in memory.

-Ashok Segu
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