From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Subject: SunOS to Solaris - why?
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 06:31:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171002133146.GX16755@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171002040448.cx4ijj2fcmtqton4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com>
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" :)
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2017-10-02 0:38 ` [TUHS] " Larry McVoy
2017-10-02 4:04 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-10-02 13:31 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
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