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jason-tuhs at shalott.net
Mon Oct 2 18:44:50 AEST 2017
>> > 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
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