2 Oct
2017
2 Oct
'17
10:44 a.m.
> > Solaris: so bad I left the company.
> Why was Solaris so much worse than SunOS?
But that was a kick in the nuts to us engineers. The
sytem v source
base was crap compared to sunos, a huge step backwards.
So my crowd pretty much all left in disgust. There was a lot of
heartache over it. None of us knew about the business deal at the time,
in fact I think a lot of management didn't know.
[...]
Instead, they repeated the SunOS journey. Bryan and crew polished that
turd for years and got it sort of reasonable. [...] but they went for it
and got it better. Only to have it tossed away again. Yuck.
For anyone who hasn't seen it, there's a pretty good talk that gives the
two-minute version of what Larry has described, and then picks up the
story from there and runs with it over the next twentyish years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc
-Jason