> 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.
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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