From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Wed, 31 Dec 2014 14:50:35 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] Illumos ) In-Reply-To: <20141231224249.GA5833@mcvoy.com> References: <20141231062219.GA21046@mcvoy.com> <1420018115.54a3c1c32faaa@www.paradise.net.nz> <20141231131335.GA26926@mercury.ccil.org> <54A4357F.9040703@aueb.gr> <20141231203617.GB3922@mcvoy.com> <20141231224249.GA5833@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20141231225035.GB5833@mcvoy.com> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:42:49PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote: > > Wow, Larry, were you one of the guys in Sun who actually lobbied to abandon > > Solaris 2 and resurrect SunOS 4.x when Solaris 2.3 flopped? > > Over and over and over again. You have no idea. > > > Anyway, a friend I admire quite a lot took the time to put some of this > > Sun history and Illumos fork stuff into a talk at LISA a few years back and > > I think he did a really nice job. Have a look if you like: > > www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc > > Yeah, I know Bryan pretty well, we used to be neighbors in Noe Valley > and have spent a fair amount of time discussing OS stuff. Here's > Bryan, Jeff Bonwick, and Bill Moore at my place in the Santa Cruz > mountains: > > http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html Sorry, I should assume people know who is who, that's Bryan on the left, Jeff is making like a chicken, Bill on the right. Jeff and Bill were the main ZFS guys (I hired Jeff at Sun, he was one of my students at Stanford; Bill worked for me on BitKeeper and went on to do ZFS and then a storage startup that EMC bought for a bazillion dollars, Bill now lives on the largest lot in Los Altos :) Smart guys, it was fun listening to that crowd chat.