From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: [TUHS] SunOS to Solaris - why?
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 17:38:54 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002003854.GU16755@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14fc91a9-922c-c73a-0fb1-78e8c3cd92ea@kilonet.net>
As I've said elsewhere, Sun was out of money. AT&T bought $200m of Sun
stock at 35% over market but Sun had to dump SunOS and got to SVR4.
I don't know if Scooter knew what he was dumping or not, I suspect not
but all those late nights when he came over to egg us kernel geeks on,
maybe he did know. I don't think he had a choice.
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Arthur Krewat via TUHSmangle wrote:
> From Sun's point of view, what was the REAL reason to move from SunOS to
> Solaris?
>
> I don't think I've read anything anywhere as to a real technical reason. Was
> it just some stuffed-shirt's "great idea"?
>
> Or was it really a standards-based or other reality-based reason?
>
> As of SunOS 4.1.4, it seemed ready to go whole-hog into SMP, so that wasn't
> the sole reason.
>
> thanks!
> art k.
>
>
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2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-10-02 13:31 ` Larry McVoy
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