From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia)
Subject: [TUHS] Bryan Cantrill on bfs & ta
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 08:01:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFCBnZuWD10oDW_fMnz1kZyZaashDN+0-Za3tb3zdokSQhfcsA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121022003325.GA7250@bitmover.com>
I watched one he gave at a usenix conference where he sort of recapped some
of the history of solaris and how oracle ruined everything and drove away
all the talent. Whether he had a valid point or not, it wasn't very
becoming. I don't know..it just never looks good when you air that stuff
out in public.
That said, it's hard to exaggerate the brilliance of dtrace. Like a
uw-madison professor said about some of the work that inspired it, it's
like watching in fine detail the inner parts of an engine move while going
down the highway at 60 mph.
On Oct 21, 2012 7:56 PM, "Larry McVoy" <lm at bitmover.com> wrote:
> Did anyone watch his talk? I just tried and couldn't make out what he was
> talking about.
>
> Bryan's a smart guy but a little subjective. I spent a day wandering
> around San Franciso with him (we used to live within a few blocks of
> each other) talking tech stuff, hardware, os, etc. He was completely
> rational, smart, insightful, until we got to either sparc or solaris.
> Then he was subjective as hell, he just couldn't back away from them
> enough to make an objective comparison to other solutions.
>
> Funny thing was that so long as sparc/solaris weren't the subject matter
> he was very objective, could see the pros/cons of anything.
>
> I guess he drank the Sun koolaid.
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 11:51:20PM +0100, Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> >
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rk8aZv0JJuk&feature=player_detailpage#t=3493s
> >
> > "SunOS has never run on a 16bit machine"
> >
> > My response was M68000 & 386 but his counter response was they both
> > supported 32bit addressing.
> >
> > Sevan
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-10-18 22:51 Sevan / Venture37
2012-10-18 23:40 ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2012-10-19 20:44 ` Clem Cole
2012-10-19 20:54 ` John Cowan
2012-10-19 22:13 ` Peter Jeremy
2012-10-22 0:33 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-22 13:01 ` A. P. Garcia [this message]
2012-10-22 13:34 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-22 14:05 ` A. P. Garcia
2012-10-22 14:13 ` Larry McVoy
2012-10-22 14:17 ` A. P. Garcia
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