From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 18:39:53 -0700
Subject: [COFF] Life under the Sun
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That's a name I haven't heard for a long time.  I knew David, he is
a good guy.  Smart guy.

Do you have a link?

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 09:01:20PM -0400, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> 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.
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