From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net (jason-tuhs@shalott.net)
Subject: Favorite UNIX
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 01:44:50 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.21.1710020135340.6255@waffle.shalott.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20171001180500.GD16755@mcvoy.com>
>> > 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 prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-10-02 8:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-10-01 17:51 Noel Chiappa
2017-10-01 18:05 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 18:39 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-02 8:44 ` jason-tuhs [this message]
2017-10-02 11:52 ` Kevin Bowling
2017-10-02 14:17 ` Warner Losh
2017-10-01 18:13 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-01 20:15 ` Steve Mynott
2017-10-01 21:21 ` Jon Steinhart
2017-10-01 23:28 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-02 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
[not found] <mailman.1424.1506881102.3779.tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
2017-10-01 19:09 ` Will Senn
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2017-09-29 2:58 [TUHS] " Kevin Bowling
2017-09-30 15:40 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 17:53 ` Ian Zimmerman
2017-09-30 18:34 ` Michael Parson
2017-09-30 18:45 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 0:51 ` Dave Horsfall
2017-10-01 1:10 ` Larry McVoy
2017-10-01 1:13 ` Cory Smelosky
2017-10-01 3:43 ` Arthur Krewat
2017-10-01 14:07 ` Don Hopkins
2017-10-01 3:05 ` Michael Parson
2017-10-01 3:15 ` Kevin Bowling
[not found] ` <201710011513.v91FDSMB011831@freefriends.org>
2017-10-01 19:35 ` Michael Parson
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