From: aek@bitsavers.org (Al Kossow)
Subject: [TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources
Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2011 10:37:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E1F2974.4020900@bitsavers.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110712232657.GB31526@bitmover.com>
On 7/12/11 4:26 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> To call this joint is complete nonsense. Sun was in a cash bind, AT&T
> wanted to make SVR4 the main Unix platform and SunOS was winning. The
> story I heard, not widely known, is that AT&T bought a big pile of Sun
> stock at 35% over market - in return for which Sun had to dump their BSD
> based SunOS and go to SVR4.
>
> Biggest mistake Sun ever made in my opinion.
>
And they ending up having to support 4.1.x for a VERY long time because
major customers (like Valid) had absolutely no interest in dumping BSD.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-07-14 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-07-12 15:11 Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-12 23:26 ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-13 0:23 ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-13 13:25 ` Arno Griffioen
2011-07-13 2:48 ` John Cowan
2011-07-13 3:07 ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-14 17:37 ` Al Kossow [this message]
2011-07-15 4:30 ` Warren Toomey
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2011-07-12 13:24 Norman Wilson
[not found] <1310385759.2145.18.camel@localhost.localdomain>
2011-07-11 14:09 ` Sergio Aguayo
2011-07-11 10:29 Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 12:42 ` Michael Kerpan
2011-07-11 12:53 ` Jim Capp
2011-07-14 17:42 ` Al Kossow
2011-07-14 17:46 ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-15 4:10 ` Random832
2011-07-15 4:22 ` John Cowan
2011-07-12 7:54 ` Wesley Parish
2011-07-12 9:53 ` Nick Downing
2011-07-19 23:17 ` Doug McIntyre
2011-07-20 0:42 ` Larry McVoy
2011-07-20 3:16 ` John Cowan
2011-07-20 4:04 ` Warner Losh
2011-07-12 9:57 ` Nick Downing
2011-07-12 11:22 ` Tim Bradshaw
2011-07-12 11:54 ` Nick Downing
2011-07-11 12:50 ` Sergio Aguayo
[not found] ` <4E1B6A45.40607@laposte.net>
2011-07-11 19:50 ` Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 21:56 ` Jason Stevens
2011-07-11 20:08 ` Michele Ghisolfo
2011-07-11 22:56 ` Warren Toomey
2011-07-12 13:04 ` Milo Velimirović
2011-07-12 13:07 ` Jason Stevens
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