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