From: lm@bitmover.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] Bryan Cantrill on bfs & ta
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 06:34:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121022133437.GB7250@bitmover.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFCBnZuWD10oDW_fMnz1kZyZaashDN+0-Za3tb3zdokSQhfcsA@mail.gmail.com>
Which professor and which work? I'm guessing Bart.
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 08:01:44AM -0500, A. P. Garcia wrote:
> I watched one he gave at a usenix conference where he sort of recapped some
> of the history of solaris and how oracle ruined everything and drove away
> all the talent. Whether he had a valid point or not, it wasn't very
> becoming. I don't know..it just never looks good when you air that stuff
> out in public.
>
> That said, it's hard to exaggerate the brilliance of dtrace. Like a
> uw-madison professor said about some of the work that inspired it, it's
> like watching in fine detail the inner parts of an engine move while going
> down the highway at 60 mph.
> On Oct 21, 2012 7:56 PM, "Larry McVoy" <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:
>
> > Did anyone watch his talk? I just tried and couldn't make out what he was
> > talking about.
> >
> > Bryan's a smart guy but a little subjective. I spent a day wandering
> > around San Franciso with him (we used to live within a few blocks of
> > each other) talking tech stuff, hardware, os, etc. He was completely
> > rational, smart, insightful, until we got to either sparc or solaris.
> > Then he was subjective as hell, he just couldn't back away from them
> > enough to make an objective comparison to other solutions.
> >
> > Funny thing was that so long as sparc/solaris weren't the subject matter
> > he was very objective, could see the pros/cons of anything.
> >
> > I guess he drank the Sun koolaid.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:20PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> > >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8aZv0JJuk&feature=player_detailpage#t=3493s
> > >
> > > "SunOS has never run on a 16bit machine"
> > >
> > > My response was M68000 & 386 but his counter response was they both
> > > supported 32bit addressing.
> > >
> > > Sevan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-10-22 13:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 22:51 Sevan / Venture37
2012-10-18 23:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-10-19 20:44 ` Clem Cole
2012-10-19 20:54 ` John Cowan
2012-10-19 22:13 ` Peter Jeremy
2012-10-22 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-22 13:01 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-10-22 13:34 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2012-10-22 14:05 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-10-22 14:13 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-22 14:17 ` A. P. Garcia
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