[geeks] Sun vs. SysVr4

David Passmore geeks at sunhelp.org
Wed Aug 22 14:57:40 CDT 2001


On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 03:12:37PM -0400, Greg A. Woods wrote:

> Heck I even ran an Amiga-4000 with SysVr4.0 on it for a few years as my
> secondary workstation.  I don't think it ever crashed, and it wasn't
> like Commodore had much in the way of resources to put into hardening
> SysVr4.  They basically only had one real systems guy and a couple of
> juniour programmers working on it -- just enough to do the basic porting
> and drivers!  SysVr4 from AT&T was very solid if you didn't play around
> inside of it and muck things up again!

I would LOVE to get my hands on a copy of Amiga UNIX...

David



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