[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 84, Issue 3

[TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 84, Issue 3

[A. P. Garcia]

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> Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:35:15 -0700
> From: Larry McVoy <lm at bitmover.com>
> To: Dan Stromberg <drsalists at gmail.com>
> Cc: tuhs at minnie.tuhs.org
> Subject: Re: [TUHS] /usr/bin on V7?
>
>> By way of introduction, I first started with *ix on an AT&T 3Bmumble, and
>> started really getting into it with SunOS 4.1.1.
>
> SunOS 4.1.1, ah, sweet memories.  I and a bunch of my friends worked on
> that one.  Guy Harris, even though he had left for Auspex, would come back
> to building 5 at Sun around 5:30, bang on the door, John Pope or I or one
> of the other kernel guys who worked into the night, would let him in and
> give him a place to work, and for the next few hours you'd hear "Jesus,
> they still haven't fixed this?" and some fix would get pushed in.
>
> That was how much we loved SunOS.  Solaris?  Not so much.  We put in tons
> of effort to make SunOS good and it was a very pleasant version of Unix.

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