From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman)
Subject: SunOS to Solaris - why?
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:04:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002040448.cx4ijj2fcmtqton4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171002003854.GU16755@mcvoy.com>
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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2017-10-02 0:38 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman [this message]
2017-10-02 13:31 ` Larry McVoy
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