From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: imp@bsdimp.com (Warner Losh) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 08:17:03 -0600 Subject: Favorite UNIX In-Reply-To: References: <20171001175106.5FE3318C0A6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171001180500.GD16755@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: Good talk. Best quote... "Don't make the mistake of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison." Warner On Mon, Oct 2, 2017 at 2:44 AM, wrote: > > > Solaris: so bad I left the company. >>> >> > Why was Solaris so much worse than SunOS? >>> >> > But that was a kick in the nuts to us engineers. The sytem v source base >> was crap compared to sunos, a huge step backwards. >> >> So my crowd pretty much all left in disgust. There was a lot of >> heartache over it. None of us knew about the business deal at the time, in >> fact I think a lot of management didn't know. >> [...] >> Instead, they repeated the SunOS journey. Bryan and crew polished that >> turd for years and got it sort of reasonable. [...] but they went for it >> and got it better. Only to have it tossed away again. Yuck. >> > > For anyone who hasn't seen it, there's a pretty good talk that gives the > two-minute version of what Larry has described, and then picks up the story > from there and runs with it over the next twentyish years: > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc > > > -Jason > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: