Re: [TUHS] First Unix-like OSes not derived from AT&T code?

On Thu, May 12, 2022 at 07:46:33PM -0700, Adam Thornton wrote: I was pretty green, it was my 3rd job after grad school. I didn't have pull at the time, I was a nobody who had to prove himself. Sun was pretty BSD centric at the time, it was more or less a bug fixed BSD with a well designed and well implemented replacement VM system. The POSIX stuff had a definite System V feel to it, and in some places, for the better. It felt like POSIX cleaned up signal semantics (I know, ASTs are better) and sorted out a bunch of differences between the various vendors. But Sun was not all in on POSIX, they were doing it because they had to. I was there as a contractor because none of the rank and file wanted anything to do with it. Whatever, doing that work was an education about all the code paths in the kernel, in retrospect I would have paid my entire college tuition to be forced to do that work. I learned a _lot_. This is sort of neither here nore there, but credit where credit is due. I enjoyed working with Don Cragun, Sun's rep to the POSIX meetings. Very soft spoken guy, but very detail oriented. When Don said "do this" I did what he said. --lm