From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: itz@very.loosely.org (Ian Zimmerman) Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 21:04:48 -0700 Subject: SunOS to Solaris - why? In-Reply-To: <20171002003854.GU16755@mcvoy.com> References: <14fc91a9-922c-c73a-0fb1-78e8c3cd92ea@kilonet.net> <20171002003854.GU16755@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: <20171002040448.cx4ijj2fcmtqton4@matica.foolinux.mooo.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. -- Please don't Cc: me privately on mailing lists and Usenet, if you also post the followup to the list or newsgroup. Do obvious transformation on domain to reply privately _only_ on Usenet.