On 2021 Apr 3, 19:23, Larry McVoy wrote:
> 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.
A lot of the early open source used to recreate the SunOS commands and args. It's what people were used to. Docs were also accessible in a way that POSIX wouldn't be for a decade .. after that, it grew from there and SunOS started to feel dated.
Warner