2 Oct
2017
2 Oct
'17
6:38 a.m.
As I've said elsewhere, Sun was out of money. AT&T bought $200m of Sun
stock at 35% over market but Sun had to dump SunOS and got to SVR4.
I don't know if Scooter knew what he was dumping or not, I suspect not
but all those late nights when he came over to egg us kernel geeks on,
maybe he did know. I don't think he had a choice.
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Arthur Krewat via TUHSmangle wrote:
From Sun's point of view, what was the REAL
reason to move from SunOS to
Solaris?
I don't think I've read anything anywhere as to a real technical reason. Was
it just some stuffed-shirt's "great idea"?
Or was it really a standards-based or other reality-based reason?
As of SunOS 4.1.4, it seemed ready to go whole-hog into SMP, so that wasn't
the sole reason.
thanks!
art k.
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