[TUHS] SunOS to Solaris - why?

[TUHS] SunOS to Solaris - why?

[Larry McVoy]

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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SunOS to Solaris - why?

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2017-10-01 17:38, Larry McVoy wrote:

> 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?

> 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.

I seem to be missing one or two messages per day on this list to
complete the threads.  No big deal, but I'm a perfectionist and it
grates.

The message by Arthur to which Larry was replying had been one of the
missing ones.  I have checked my MTA log and there is no trace of the
Message-ID of Arthur's message.  So it is definitely _not_ the case that
I received it but it went "into the spam bin".

As far as I can tell I'm on the "non-mangled" part of the team.

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SunOS to Solaris - why?

[Larry McVoy]

On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 09:04:48PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2017-10-01 17:38, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I seem to be missing one or two messages per day on this list to
> complete the threads.  No big deal, but I'm a perfectionist and it
> grates.

Yeah, me too, I find myself jumping into the middle of a thread and 
feeling like I'm "late" :)