Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 2:52 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> >> The first time I was doing sysadmin work was on a sparcserver, back in >> '95-'97, and I really, really liked that box. I agree, it was a real >> shame. > > Yeah, but fast forward another year or two and you had an extremely > buggy OS (not a problem by itself, everything was back then) and it > was cheaper to go buy a faster PC and run linux than it would have > been to get the bugfixes for the OS. What did they expect to happen? > Not in the mid/late nineties. Sun 3 was nice and solid (I used it, along with Irix mostly, through the early/mid-nineties). Solaris 6.3 == Sun 3; Solaris 6.4 was the next release, and was perfectly fine and solid. By the late nineties, RH 5.2 was nice and solid, and I was running that at home. mark