[TUHS] Illumos )

[Larry McVoy]

On Wed, Dec 31, 2014 at 02:50:35PM -0800, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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,

s/should/shouldn't/

Sigh.  I swear I wasn't drinking, just a brain fart.

> 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.
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