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Conference heron::euro_swas_ai

Title:Europe-Swas-Artificial-Intelligence
Moderator:HERON::BUCHANAN
Created:Fri Jun 03 1988
Last Modified:Thu Aug 04 1994
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:442
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316.0. "For UN*X People: Features Comparison Chart" by ULYSSE::ROACH (TANSTAAFL !) Sun Apr 07 1991 12:38

 

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                                        Date:     05-Apr-1991 06:55pm CET
                                        From:     TURNER
                                                  TURNER@JMCNAC@FASDER@YIPPEE@MRGATE@HUGHI
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TO:  PAT ROACH@VBO


Subject: For UN*X People: Features Comparison Chart

From:	NAME: CHIP HOULIHAN @TTB            
	FUNC: Finance & Business Systems      
	TEL: (603)884-1989                    <HOULIHAN.CHIP AT A1 AT NUTMEG AT TTB>
Date:	18-Mar-1991
Posted-date: 18-Mar-1991
Precedence: 0
Subject: U*IX Comparison Chart
To:	See Below


                                    Feature Comparison Matrices

                   Available:   Now     Now    Now    Now    Now    Now
                   Vendor:      Digital IBM    HP     SUN    AT&T   OSF
                   O/S:         ULTRIX  AIX    HP-UX  SunOS  SysV   OSF/1
                   Version:     4.2     3.1    7.0    4.1.1   R4     

               User Interface
               OSF/Motif        Yes(O)  Yes(O) Yes    No(T)  (V)    Yes(O)
               X11 Release 3    Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               X11 Release 4    Yes     No     No     Yes    No     Yes
               Disp Postscript  Yes     Yes    No     No(P)  No     No
               Multiscreen Spt  Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               X Applic Gen     Yes(O)  No     Yes(O) Yes(O) (V)    (V)
               NeXTstep         No      Yes(O) No     No     No     No

               Networking
               X.25             Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               FDDI Support     Yes     No     No     Yes    (V)    (V)
               X/Open's XTI     Yes     No     Yes    No     No     Yes
               DECnet Phase IV  Yes     Yes(T) Yes(T) Yes(T) (V)    (V)
               3270 Terminal    Yes(O)  Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               SNA LU6.2        Yes(T)  Yes    Yes(T) Yes(T) (V)    (V)
               Streams          No      No     No     Yes    Yes    Yes
               Sockets          Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes

               Distributed Computing
               NFS              Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               Other Remote FS  No      No     No     RFS    RFS    AFS(DCE)
               DCE RPC (NCS)    Yes     Yes    Yes    No     No     Yes(DCE)
               ONC RPC support  No      Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    No
               Kerberos(Athena) Yes     Yes    No     No     No     Yes(DCE)
               Hesiod(Athena)   Yes     No     No     No     No     (V)
               Yellow Pages     Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               Diskless boot    Yes     No     Yes(P) Yes    No     Yes(DCE)
               Remote Install   Yes     Yes    Yes    No     (V)    (V)
               SUN W/S boot     Yes     Yes    No     Yes    (V)    (V)
               SNMP Agent       Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)
               DOS Server       Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    No     Yes(DCE)

               Standards
               XPG3 base brand  Yes     Yes    Yes    No(P)  Yes    Yes
               SVID Issue 2     Yes(P)  Yes(P) Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               SVID Issue 3     No      No     No     No(P)  Yes    (V)
               POSIX 1003.1     Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               POSIX 1003.2     No      No     No     No     No     No
               POSIX 1003.4     No      No     No     No     No     No
               ANSI C           Yes     Yes(P) Yes    Yes(O) (V)    (V)
	       SQL              Yes     Yes(T) Yes(T) Yes(T) (V)    (V)

               Key to comments:
               O - Optional feature not in base O/S
               P - Partial
               T - Available through third-party
               DDS - Digital Distributed Software
               V - Vendor specific
               DCE - available in OSF/DCE








                                   Feature Comparison Matrices (cont'd)

                   Available:   Now     Now    Now    Now    Now    Now
                   Vendor:      Digital IBM    HP     SUN    AT&T   OSF
                   O/S:         ULTRIX  AIX    HP-UX  SunOS  SysV   OSF/1
                   Version:     4.2     3.1    7.0    4.1.1   R4     

               Software Development
               C                Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               Fortran          Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)
               Pascal           Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               Cobol            Yes(DDS)Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               Ada              Yes(DDS)Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               Lisp             Yes(DDS)Yes(T) Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               C++              Yes(T)  Yes(T) Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)
               CASE tools       Yes     Yes(T) Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               GKS              Yes(O)  Yes(O) Yes(O) Yes(O) (V)    (V)
               PHIGS            Yes(O)  Yes(O) Yes(O) Yes(O) (V)    (V)

               Kernel functions
               SMP              Yes     No     No     No     No     Yes
               C2 functionality Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               B1 Security      Yes(O)  No     No     Yes(O) Yes(O) Yes(O)
               Disk Mirroring   Yes(T)  No(Q2) Yes(O) Yes(O) No     Yes
               Realtime feat.   No      Yes    Yes    No     Yes    No
               Mem Mapped File  No      Yes    No     Yes    Yes    Yes
               Light Process    No      No     No     Yes    No     Yes
               Shared Libr      No      Yes    No     Yes    Yes    Yes
               Multi-Disk Vol   No      Yes    No     Yes(O) No     Yes
               BSD File System  Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes
               Dynamic Swap     No      No     Yes    No     No     Yes
               Pre-loaded OS    Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    (V)    (V)
               National Lang    Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes    Yes



               Data Management
               SQL at no cost   Yes     No     No     No     No     No
               Two Phase Commit Yes     Yes(T) Yes(T) Yes(T) No     No
               Data Dictionary  Yes     Yes    No     No     No     No
               Obj Orient Tools No      Yes    Yes    No     No     No
               Compound Docum   Yes     No     No     No     No     No
               OLTP tools       No      Yes(T) Yes(T) No     Yes(O) (V)
               Record Managmt   Yes(T)  Yes    Yes(T) Yes(O) Yes(T) (V)
               CD-ROM Document  Yes     Yes    Yes    Yes    No     (V)

               Key to comments:
               O - Optional feature not in base O/S
               P - Partial
               T - Available through third-party
               DDS - Digital Distributed Software
               V - Vendor specific
               DCE - available in OSF/DCE
        

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