1 Oct
2017
1 Oct
'17
8:13 p.m.
On 1 Oct 2017, at 19:51, Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
[I recently posted this to the hacker news discussion about the death of solaris…]
Remember the poster they were giving out at Usenix with a picture of the BSD Tie Fighter
blowing up the AT&T Death Star, and the mathematical formulation "4.x > V for
all values of x from zero to infinity”?
It just didn't make sense that Sun kicked AT&T's ass with BSD Unix, and then
capitulated to them by switching over to SVR4.
Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there was some business reason, but it was a bitter pill to
swallow.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars
-Don
From: Don Hopkins
Solaris: so bad I left the company.
Why was Solaris so much worse than SunOS?
I guess the Sun management didn't understand that was the case? Or were they
so hot for the AT+T linkup that they were willing to live with it?
Noel