* [TUHS] SunOS to Solaris - why? [not found] <14fc91a9-922c-c73a-0fb1-78e8c3cd92ea@kilonet.net> @ 2017-10-02 0:38 ` Larry McVoy 2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Larry McVoy @ 2017-10-02 0:38 UTC (permalink / raw) 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. > > -- --- Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* SunOS to Solaris - why? 2017-10-02 0:38 ` [TUHS] SunOS to Solaris - why? Larry McVoy @ 2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman 2017-10-02 13:31 ` Larry McVoy 0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread From: Ian Zimmerman @ 2017-10-02 4:04 UTC (permalink / raw) 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. ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
* SunOS to Solaris - why? 2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman @ 2017-10-02 13:31 ` Larry McVoy 0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread From: Larry McVoy @ 2017-10-02 13:31 UTC (permalink / raw) 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" :) ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 3+ messages in thread
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