23 Feb
2023
23 Feb
'23
1:22 p.m.
On 2/22/23 6:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
I don't doubt that. I certainly wasn't
there. I've heard the story
from Kirk several times though...
On the "it would tank the stock" story, it's certainly a much better
story than the boring one I have. I'm thinking legs are getting pulled
somewhere on that. Though were it true it would have the pleasant
property of making our engineering efforts be reflected in the business
in a much more inflated way, which, as several people have pointed out
in the past isn't how it usually works.
On 2/22/23 6:14 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
I got my story from Kirk McKusick who was very clear
that it was going
to happen, but didn't due to some hold up at the highest levels.
While I'm confident the "tank the stock" story isn't true, that
Kirk
remembers there being a hold up makes me concerned that I'm not
remembering everything. Perhaps my memories are too rosy based on what
we were able to do, such that I'm overlooking some consideration that
would have made the VM system different. Kirk (and Mike Karels) had been
involved in the work early on so it benefited from their help and they
were certainly able to evaluate it in the context of what they wanted to
do with BSD. Guess I need to dig and reconstruct the story better...