From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on inbox.vuxu.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.0 required=5.0 tests=MAILING_LIST_MULTI, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 Received: (qmail 3425 invoked from network); 4 Apr 2021 15:02:02 -0000 Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (45.79.103.53) by inbox.vuxu.org with ESMTPUTF8; 4 Apr 2021 15:02:02 -0000 Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id 94D259C90D; Mon, 5 Apr 2021 01:01:57 +1000 (AEST) Received: from minnie.tuhs.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 947709C641; Mon, 5 Apr 2021 01:01:10 +1000 (AEST) Received: by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix, from userid 112) id E11109C641; Mon, 5 Apr 2021 01:01:06 +1000 (AEST) X-Greylist: delayed 1045 seconds by postgrey-1.36 at minnie.tuhs.org; Mon, 05 Apr 2021 01:01:05 AEST Received: from neener.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) by minnie.tuhs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A34459C63F for ; Mon, 5 Apr 2021 01:01:05 +1000 (AEST) Received: from www.bl.org (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]) (authenticated bits=0) by neener.bl.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPSA id 134Ehd6Y016084 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 4 Apr 2021 09:43:39 -0500 (CDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Sun, 04 Apr 2021 09:43:39 -0500 From: Michael Parson To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org In-Reply-To: <20210404085520.GA6494@naleco.com> References: <584DED5A-1226-4AF7-A191-C34CAFA53686@pobox.com> <20210404022356.GR28660@mcvoy.com> <20210404085520.GA6494@naleco.com> User-Agent: Roundcube Webmail/1.4.10 Message-ID: <5c112faf03e4a6ed4f642e11be829118@bl.org> X-Sender: mparson@bl.org Organization: BL dot ORG Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (neener.bl.org [50.116.26.109]); Sun, 04 Apr 2021 09:43:40 -0500 (CDT) Subject: Re: [TUHS] Zombified SCO comes back from the dead, brings trial back to life against IBM X-BeenThere: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.26 Precedence: list List-Id: The Unix Heritage Society mailing list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: tuhs-bounces@minnie.tuhs.org Sender: "TUHS" On 2021-04-04 03:55, Josh Good wrote: > 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. In 1993, when we spun up our first Linux box, we named it 'mercury', since it was the closest to a Sun we were going to get at our little community college. It was a re-purposed Novell server, a 486DX-50, 32 MB RAM and 1 Gig HD, pretty beefy system for the time, and the CS dept was ecstatic that they now had access to a Unix-like system in addition to the VAX/VMS that they'd been using up until then. -- Michael Parson Pflugerville, TX KF5LGQ