[TUHS] SVR4 x86 -- Sources
Al Kossow
aek at bitsavers.org
Fri Jul 15 03:37:56 AEST 2011
On 7/12/11 4:26 PM, Larry McVoy wrote:
> To call this joint is complete nonsense. Sun was in a cash bind, AT&T
> wanted to make SVR4 the main Unix platform and SunOS was winning. The
> story I heard, not widely known, is that AT&T bought a big pile of Sun
> stock at 35% over market - in return for which Sun had to dump their BSD
> based SunOS and go to SVR4.
>
> Biggest mistake Sun ever made in my opinion.
>
And they ending up having to support 4.1.x for a VERY long time because
major customers (like Valid) had absolutely no interest in dumping BSD.
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