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 {HP-SUX},
{sun-stools}.