From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: kim kubik Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <0dd70d22f88d7f6d4dcc49c0a2b9f009@plan9.bell-labs.com>, Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie: life without rio Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 08:44:11 +0000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: 5c083046-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 rminnich@lanl.gov (ron minnich) wrote in message=20 > Joy was one of the first Rock Star OS guys. At 1982 or so Usenix they w= ere=20 > handing out 'The Joy of Unix' badges.=20 >=20 my admittedly weak memory is that the badges read 'The Joy of SUN', being handed out at to announce that he had joined the new company. Lore around this time as well was that HP had given Joy a large sum of cash to port Unix to a 32-bit microprocessor they had developed, the thing sat in a chunk of solid gold the size of a kitchen tile, necessary as a heat sink. A workstation based on it may have actually shipped a couple of units. Anyhow, all this supposedly kept him from getting back=20 across the Bay to UCB to complete his PhD. - k