4 Apr
2021
4 Apr
'21
4:43 p.m.
On 2021-04-04 03:55, Josh Good wrote:
On 2021 Apr 3, 19:23, Larry McVoy wrote:
In 1993, when we spun up our first Linux box, we named it 'mercury',
since
it was the closest to a Sun we were going to get at our little community
college.
It was a re-purposed Novell server, a 486DX-50, 32 MB RAM and 1 Gig HD,
pretty
beefy system for the time, and the CS dept was ecstatic that they now
had
access to a Unix-like system in addition to the VAX/VMS that they'd been
using up until then.
--
Michael Parson
Pflugerville, TX
KF5LGQ
all these years later, the best part of my career
was at Sun. Sun
was the Bell Labs of my generation.
Yes, it looks like in those years inferior Unix vendors were playing a
game
of lock-in with their customers, while Sun was playing the opposite
game:
attracting users and developers with features, openness and by
providing a
more joyful user/developer experience.
Those who could, used Sun kit. Those not so fortunate, aspired to use
it.