5 May
2017
5 May
'17
5:14 a.m.
On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:59:22PM +0100, Tim Bradshaw wrote:
On 3 May 2017, at 14:41, Nemo <cym224(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
As someone who was at Sun, loved SunOS 4 and hated Solaris, yup. Even the
diehard Solaris people like Bryan Cantrill say that they stick /opt/gnu/bin
in their path first.
It boggles my mind that Sun was so strict on being compat with SVR4 and
they knew that everyone hated that.
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Larry McVoy lm at mcvoy.com http://www.mcvoy.com/lm
Along these lines, who said "Cat went to Berkely, came back waving flags."
And anyone who lived through the SunOS 4 -- SunOS 5 transition will know that some of
those Berkeley flags (not specifically for cat, but almost certainly including those for
cat) were really quite useful. I remember spending really a long time finding and
building BSD/GNU versions of utilities which actually had the options you needed on early
SunOS 5 machines: later on Sun themselves put some of them back.