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I wonder if the poor guy from Sun with the Worst Job in the World was hired by Oracle and still has his terrible job?

http://eng.umd.edu/~blj/funny/worst-job.html

Ha, that's funny. I had almost forgotten about the SunOS-vs-Solaris wars. Everybody wanted to hang onto SunOS as long as possible. Seems ironic that (many) people feel this way about Solaris now.

Remember the poster they were giving out at Usenix with a picture of the BSD Tie Fighter blowing up the AT&T Death Star, and the mathematical formulation "4.x > V for all values of x from zero to infinity"?

It just didn't make sense that Sun kicked AT&T's ass with BSD Unix, and then capitulated to them by switching over to SVR4.

Yeah, yeah, I'm sure there was some business reason, but it was a bitter pill to swallow.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_wars

Remember when you had to boot it into kadb and fiddle around with symbols to get it to run at all? (IDR3.2 or so)

Good times, good times...

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