[3887] in SIPB bug reports
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU ("Mark W. Eichin")
Thu Jul 1 09:52:11 1993
Date: Thu, 1 Jul 93 09:51:49 EDT
From: eichin@athena.mit.edu ("Mark W. Eichin")
To: jik@gza.com
Cc: ckclark@mit.edu, solo26@athena.mit.edu, bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: "Jonathan I. Kamens"'s message of Thu, 1 Jul 93 08:44:19 -0400 <9307011244.AA20536@pad-thai.aktis.com>
>> Of course, the other reason rn has so much trouble configuring under
>> Solaris is because Solaris changed (read "broke") so many things in
>> ways that no other UNIX variant has ever changed before. That's
>> progress for you.
Oh, come on. Code that works on SVR4 (you know, the UNIX put
out by the people that OWN THE NAME, not a mere "variant") should work
fine on Solaris -- and that's the trouble, most people assume BSD
instead of POSIX or SVID.
Not that I'm defending Sun -- I think it was stupid of them to
switch from a BSD base, and the latest SunFlash indicates that they've
finally figured it out too:
> SunSoft will also make the Solaris 1.1 software environment available
> as an option to Solaris 2 customers of microSPARC-based systems, such
> as the SPARCclassic(tm) and SPARCstation(tm) LX from Sun Microsystems
> Computer Corp. (SMCC). This will allow end users to take advantage of
... but be a little more careful about what you blame the change on.
Flame the *right* thing...
_Mark_
