Favorite UNIX
Cory Smelosky
b4 at gewt.net
Sun Oct 1 11:13:38 AEST 2017
On Sat, Sep 30, 2017, at 18:10, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 11:51:30AM +1100, Dave Horsfall wrote:
> > On Sat, 30 Sep 2017, Larry McVoy wrote:
> >
> > >If it runs 4.1.4 it will run 4.1.3 (which was my favorite release, lot of
> > >Larry love in there, a lot of other people's love in there, lots of late
> > >night hacking by people who cared).
> >
> > Agreed; it was my favourite SunOS. Never got to use 4.1.4, as $BOSS decided
> > to switch to Slowaris instead (that's where the applications were).
>
> I think 4.1.4 had Greg Limes herculean effort to make the VM system
> scale on multiprocessors. So it might be worth a look.
>
I have source for 4.1.4 scurried away...but I don't think I have 4.1.3.
> Yeah, at that time everyone was pushed to Solaris. Here's another Larry
> story for ya.
>
> I created this weird ass NFS server that was a cluster. I sort of
> cheated but sort of did not. It ran really fast, it used one of the
> first ethernet switches (a modified Kalpana, the mods were VLANs, I
> thought I invented that but apparently somebody beat me to it). I did
> the development on my beloved SunOS 4.x but Scooter insisted that it
> ship with Solaris.
How'd you do VLANs on that?
>
> So I'm at the Moscone center, some tech/geek thing, I'm pitching this
> product. It was a technical pitch, I'm an engineer, so it was mostly
> geeks in the room.
>
> There is some dude in the room who keeps railing on Solaris. I'm trying
> to be a good soldier and say that Solaris is the future, yada yada.
> This guy keeps going on and on about how much Solaris sucks and couldn't
> he have this system with SunOS.
I'd love to run SunOS on modern hardware...;)
I need to fix my IPX/IPC...
>
> I finally lose it, like really lose it, and say "I know, I know, Solaris
> sucks, you should see what this system does with SunOS, I fucking hate
> Solaris".
>
> It was all captured on tape. My boss, Ken Okin, VP of all server
> hardware
> at Sun, said "Find that tape and destroy it". So I did.
>
> Fun times? I guess? Welcome to the real world, it's not all about what
> the geeks want. When it is, wallow in that, it doesn't happen that
> often.
>
> --lm
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Cory Smelosky
b4 at gewt.net
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