From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 21:01:20 -0400
Subject: [COFF] Life under the Sun
Message-ID: <0de5b5b4-8749-79ea-681f-0df6330a5ede@gmail.com>

I just finished reading "Life under the Sun" by David Yen, a 296-page 
collection of anecdotes in historical order covering his 20y at Sun.  An 
amusing, and sometimes sad, read.

Here are two: (1) During the Serengeti project, Sunsoft lost the only 
person who knew FORTH and they waited two months to find someone to 
modify the OBF.  (2) Google's purchasing dep't rejected their engineers' 
purchase requisitions for T1 machines because they were single-sourced, 
despite running their search s/w six times faster than comparably priced 
Intel boxes.

N.