[TUHS] Illumos )

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:42:49PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 05:19:15PM -0500, Jacob Ritorto wrote:
> > Wow, Larry, were you one of the guys in Sun who actually lobbied to abandon
> > Solaris 2 and resurrect SunOS 4.x when Solaris 2.3 flopped?
> 
> Over and over and over again.  You have no idea.
> 
> >   Anyway, a friend I admire quite a lot took the time to put some of this
> > Sun history and Illumos fork stuff into a talk at LISA a few years back and
> > I think he did a really nice job.  Have a look if you like:
> > www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
> 
> Yeah, I know Bryan pretty well, we used to be neighbors in Noe Valley
> and have spent a fair amount of time discussing OS stuff.  Here's 
> Bryan, Jeff Bonwick, and Bill Moore at my place in the Santa Cruz 
> mountains:
> 
> http://www.mcvoy.com/lm/photos/2007/05/257.html

Sorry, I should assume people know who is who, that's Bryan on the left,
Jeff is making like a chicken, Bill on the right.

Jeff and Bill were the main ZFS guys (I hired Jeff at Sun, he was one of
my students at Stanford; Bill worked for me on BitKeeper and went on to
do ZFS and then a storage startup that EMC bought for a bazillion dollars,
Bill now lives on the largest lot in Los Altos :)

Smart guys, it was fun listening to that crowd chat.