Slowlaris

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From Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001) [jargon]:

  Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n. [Usenet; poss. from the variety of
     prosimian 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 {marketroid}s 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}.