From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: a.phillip.garcia@gmail.com (A. P. Garcia) Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2011 08:26:17 -0500 Subject: [TUHS] TUHS Digest, Vol 84, Issue 3 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: > Date: Wed, 3 Aug 2011 20:35:15 -0700 > From: Larry McVoy > To: Dan Stromberg > 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. :-) if you haven't yet, check out tme sometime: http://people.csail.mit.edu/fredette/tme/