From: don@DonHopkins.com (Don Hopkins)
Subject: Favorite UNIX
Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2017 20:13:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <77208462-CD53-4C32-9A57-D5A59A5E7FED@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171001175106.5FE3318C0A6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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> On 1 Oct 2017, at 19:51, Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
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>> From: Don Hopkins
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>> Solaris: so bad I left the company.
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> Why was Solaris so much worse than SunOS?
>
> I guess the Sun management didn't understand that was the case? Or were they
> so hot for the AT+T linkup that they were willing to live with it?
>
> Noel
[I recently posted this to the hacker news discussion about the death of solaris…]
Remember the poster they were giving out at Usenix with a picture of the BSD Tie Fighter blowing up the AT&T Death Star, and the mathematical formulation "4.x > V for all values of x from zero to infinity”?
It just didn't make sense that Sun kicked AT&T's ass with BSD Unix, and then capitulated to them by switching over to SVR4.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there was some business reason, but it was a bitter pill to swallow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
-Don
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-01 17:51 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-01 18:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 18:39 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-02 8:44 ` jason-tuhs
2017-10-02 11:52 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-10-02 14:17 ` Warner Losh
2017-10-01 18:13 ` Don Hopkins [this message]
2017-10-01 20:15 ` Steve Mynott
2017-10-01 21:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-10-01 23:28 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-02 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] <mailman.1424.1506881102.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-10-01 19:09 ` Will Senn
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2017-09-29 2:58 [TUHS] " Kevin Bowling
2017-09-30 15:40 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 17:53 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-30 18:34 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 18:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 0:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-01 1:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 1:13 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-10-01 3:43 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01 14:07 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-01 3:05 ` Michael Parson
2017-10-01 3:15 ` Kevin Bowling
[not found] ` <201710011513.v91FDSMB011831@freefriends.org>
2017-10-01 19:35 ` Michael Parson
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