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On 2021 Apr  3, 19:23, Larry McVoy wrote:

> all these years later, the best part of my career was at Sun.  Sun
> was the Bell Labs of my generation.  

Yes, it looks like in those years inferior Unix vendors were playing a game
of lock-in with their customers, while Sun was playing the opposite game:
attracting users and developers with features, openness and by providing a
more joyful user/developer experience.

Those who could, used Sun kit. Those not so fortunate, aspired to use it.

-- 
Josh Good