From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: lm@mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 06:31:46 -0700 Subject: SunOS to Solaris - why? In-Reply-To: <20171002040448.cx4ijj2fcmtqton4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> References: <14fc91a9-922c-c73a-0fb1-78e8c3cd92ea@kilonet.net> <20171002003854.GU16755@mcvoy.com> <20171002040448.cx4ijj2fcmtqton4@matica.foolinux.mooo.com> Message-ID: <20171002133146.GX16755@mcvoy.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" :)