From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: b4@gewt.net (Cory Smelosky) Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 18:13:38 -0700 Subject: Favorite UNIX In-Reply-To: <20171001011017.GB28606@mcvoy.com> References: <20170930175314.gdz6gj4lhjrk6fpp@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> <674dfbe51503c22a1dbc271c38142cd6@bl.org> <20171001003646.GA28606@mcvoy.com> <20171001011017.GB28606@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <1506820418.129128.1123757408.03946155@webmail.messagingengine.com> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017, at 18:10, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:51:30AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote: > > > > >If it runs 4.1.4 it will run 4.1.3 (which was my favorite release, lot of > > >Larry love in there, a lot of other people's love in there, lots of late > > >night hacking by people who cared). > > > > Agreed; it was my favourite SunOS. Never got to use 4.1.4, as $BOSS decided > > to switch to Slowaris instead (that's where the applications were). > > I think 4.1.4 had Greg Limes herculean effort to make the VM system > scale on multiprocessors. So it might be worth a look. > I have source for 4.1.4 scurried away...but I don't think I have 4.1.3. > Yeah, at that time everyone was pushed to Solaris. Here's another Larry > story for ya. > > I created this weird ass NFS server that was a cluster. I sort of > cheated but sort of did not. It ran really fast, it used one of the > first ethernet switches (a modified Kalpana, the mods were VLANs, I > thought I invented that but apparently somebody beat me to it). I did > the development on my beloved SunOS 4.x but Scooter insisted that it > ship with Solaris. How'd you do VLANs on that? > > So I'm at the Moscone center, some tech/geek thing, I'm pitching this > product. It was a technical pitch, I'm an engineer, so it was mostly > geeks in the room. > > There is some dude in the room who keeps railing on Solaris. I'm trying > to be a good soldier and say that Solaris is the future, yada yada. > This guy keeps going on and on about how much Solaris sucks and couldn't > he have this system with SunOS. I'd love to run SunOS on modern hardware...;) I need to fix my IPX/IPC... > > I finally lose it, like really lose it, and say "I know, I know, Solaris > sucks, you should see what this system does with SunOS, I fucking hate > Solaris". > > It was all captured on tape. My boss, Ken Okin, VP of all server > hardware > at Sun, said "Find that tape and destroy it". So I did. > > Fun times? I guess? Welcome to the real world, it's not all about what > the geeks want. When it is, wallow in that, it doesn't happen that > often. > > --lm -- Cory Smelosky b4 at gewt.net