From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [TUHS] the guy who brought up SVr4 on Sun machines
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 15:00:58 -0500 [thread overview]
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On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 1:56 PM, Nevin Liber <nevin at eviloverlord.com> wrote:
> Non-historical observation ... the interesting thing about the paper Larry
> linked, for me, is that it exactly describes the huge sucking black hole
> that made Linux (or something very much like it) inevitable.
Brother, I think you have that right, although I believe it that can be
said of a number of the better early OS teams from those days.
> It is no coincidence that the same passion we found at Sun working
> on SunOS, we also find in the community of developers working on the Linux
> kernel.
+1 for Masscomp, SGI and Apollo
> I always wondered how many of Sun's Kernel Hackers found their path there.
From my alumni lists of the teams I was part, many of us are happily
hacking away in the FOSS community although, as other responsibilities have
come to my life - less and less time for some of it.
Clem
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2017-01-04 2:41 Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 3:00 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 3:23 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 3:35 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 12:24 ` Ed Carp
2017-01-04 16:17 ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:31 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:34 ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 16:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:06 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:11 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:15 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:42 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:48 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:57 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:24 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:30 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-04 18:25 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:32 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:46 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-05 11:18 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06 2:09 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-06 3:07 ` Steve Nickolas
2017-01-06 17:38 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 17:36 ` ron minnich
2017-01-04 17:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 16:46 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:02 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 17:39 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 17:52 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:23 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:27 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-04 18:29 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-04 18:44 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 11:50 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-06 2:02 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-09 13:40 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-09 17:48 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 3:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 4:16 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-08 1:37 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 2:26 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-04 18:56 ` Nevin Liber
2017-01-04 19:05 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-04 20:00 ` Clem Cole [this message]
2017-01-04 21:20 ` Brad Spencer
2017-01-04 21:57 ` William Pechter
2017-01-04 21:57 ` William Pechter
2017-01-05 0:36 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-01-05 0:43 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 0:50 ` William Pechter
2017-01-05 1:01 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 3:00 ` Wesley Parish
2017-01-05 3:13 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 8:12 ` Andy Kosela
2017-01-05 16:23 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-05 16:31 ` Clem Cole
2017-01-10 15:12 Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:03 ` arnold
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 16:24 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:32 ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 16:40 ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:41 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:20 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 16:34 ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 16:38 ` Chet Ramey
2017-01-10 16:57 ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 17:10 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-10 17:47 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:28 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 18:33 ` Warner Losh
2017-01-10 18:42 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-10 19:21 ` Clem cole
2017-01-10 19:41 ` Clem cole
2017-01-11 21:03 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 20:56 ` Dan Cross
2017-01-11 22:57 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:06 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-11 23:52 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-11 23:57 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12 0:07 ` Joerg Schilling
2017-01-12 1:58 ` Larry McVoy
2017-01-12 10:39 ` Joerg Schilling
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2017-01-10 16:34 ` Berny Goodheart
2017-01-10 15:38 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-10 21:26 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 18:07 Noel Chiappa
2017-01-11 19:37 ` Charles Anthony
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