From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 08:23:22 -0800 Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines In-Reply-To: References: <20170104033512.GA22116@mcvoy.com> <20170105004353.GB6931@mcvoy.com> <4c14e37a-f959-d625-b877-f498a644415c@gmail.com> <20170105010148.GC6931@mcvoy.com> <1483585206.586db6b64f706@www.paradise.net.nz> <20170105031329.GB32104@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20170105162322.GA2588@mcvoy.com> On Thu, Jan 05, 2017 at 02:12:19AM -0600, Andy Kosela wrote: > > He's a good guy, a little weird, but so am I. He did some great work > > in 386BSD, it was ahead of Linux. I remember going into Fry's and > > sticking a 386BSD floppy in to see if it would boot. It usually did. > > It had tons of bugs though. That is why Jordan Hubbard and Rod Grimes > started unofficial 386BSD patchkit which transformed into FreeBSD; > "unofficial" because Bill Jolitz was very hard to work with, to say the > least... He was smart but sensitive. And pretty butt hurt over how he had been treated by the "in crowd" at Usenix. I got past that and found him a pleasure to work with, but I had to get past all that first. We were working together in person, I can imagine that working with him through email would be more than "very hard" unfortunately.