From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jason-tuhs@shalott.net (jason-tuhs@shalott.net) Date: Mon, 2 Oct 2017 01:44:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Favorite UNIX In-Reply-To: <20171001180500.GD16755@mcvoy.com> References: <20171001175106.5FE3318C0A6@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> <20171001180500.GD16755@mcvoy.com> Message-ID: >> > 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