Solaris/x86 rant (was: Any advice on Solaris laptops?)

[Henry Hall]

Thanks to BUoD (Bad User on Device - is that an acronym only my kids use 
when referring to me?) this appears not to have made it out.

Henry

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Only a few historical rants to add:

Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
>> And there's the retro naming of SunOS 4.x to Solaris 1.x.
> 
> ummm, that was way more than a "retro naming".
> 
> SunOS was based on the BSD kernel and the BSD code, modified a long time
> under Sun.
> 
> Solaris was based on System V.4, with Sun ripping it apart and basically
> re-writing it.

Wasn't there a windowing system change about this time as well?

/me recalls McNealy's rant about "Sun will never run X Windows" just a
couple of years before his next rant about "Sun will never run Motif".

> As a side note we never really released a "V1.0" of Digital's OSF/1
> system.  We started with V1.2, I believe....we figured no one would use
> a V1.0 :-)

As someone who was way too familiar with that release, I believe I
received an ice cream from the base system product mgr. when the 3000th
copy of that system (the first unix-ish release from DEC with both Motif
and *shared libraries* - not to mention X11r5 (just released)
functionality) was sold.

So now you know where all of DEC's profits went from that release. :-/

Henry