2 Oct
2017
2 Oct
'17
6:38 a.m.
As I've said elsewhere, Sun was out of money. AT&T bought $200m of Sun
stock at 35% over market but Sun had to dump SunOS and got to SVR4.
I don't know if Scooter knew what he was dumping or not, I suspect not
but all those late nights when he came over to egg us kernel geeks on,
maybe he did know. I don't think he had a choice.
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Arthur Krewat via TUHSmangle wrote:
From Sun's point of view, what was the REAL
reason to move from SunOS to
Solaris?
I don't think I've read anything anywhere as to a real technical reason. Was
it just some stuffed-shirt's "great idea"?
Or was it really a standards-based or other reality-based reason?
As of SunOS 4.1.4, it seemed ready to go whole-hog into SMP, so that wasn't
the sole reason.
thanks!
art k.
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2 Oct
2 Oct
10:04 a.m.
New subject: SunOS to Solaris - why?
On 2017-10-01 17:38, Larry McVoy wrote:
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Arthur
Krewat via TUHSmangle wrote:
> From Sun's point of view, what was the REAL reason to move from
> SunOS to Solaris?
As I've said elsewhere, Sun was out of money.
AT&T bought $200m of
Sun stock at 35% over market but Sun had to dump SunOS and got to
SVR4.
I don't know if Scooter knew what he was dumping or not, I suspect not
but all those late nights when he came over to egg us kernel geeks on,
maybe he did know. I don't think he had a choice.
I seem to be missing one or two messages per day on this list to
complete the threads. No big deal, but I'm a perfectionist and it
grates.
The message by Arthur to which Larry was replying had been one of the
missing ones. I have checked my MTA log and there is no trace of the
Message-ID of Arthur's message. So it is definitely _not_ the case that
I received it but it went "into the spam bin".
As far as I can tell I'm on the "non-mangled" part of the team.
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7:31 p.m.
New subject: SunOS to Solaris - why?
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 09:04:48PM -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
On 2017-10-01 17:38, Larry McVoy wrote:
Yeah, me too, I find myself jumping into the middle of a thread and
feeling like I'm "late" :)
On Sun, Oct 01, 2017 at 12:59:42PM -0400, Arthur
Krewat via TUHSmangle wrote:
> From Sun's point of view, what was the REAL reason to move from
> SunOS to Solaris?
As I've said elsewhere, Sun was out of
money. AT&T bought $200m of
Sun stock at 35% over market but Sun had to dump SunOS and got to
SVR4.
I don't know if Scooter knew what he was dumping or not, I suspect not
but all those late nights when he came over to egg us kernel geeks on,
maybe he did know. I don't think he had a choice.
I seem to be missing one or two messages per day on this list to
complete the threads. No big deal, but I'm a perfectionist and it
grates.
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