Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> > I am not interested to change things just in order to change things. One
> > of the reasons for UNIX to be successful is that things have been defined
> > simple and that old programs are enhanced without breaking them. Doing this
> > was one of the major strengths of Sun in the mid 1980.
>
> I'm glad after 20 years, people are finally able to forget the pain of the
> SunOS 4 -> Solaris 2 transition.
I of course still know about this, but I had a different situation. I received
a free Sparc Classic with SunOS-5.0 early together with a free Sun compiler.
This allowed me to port my "schily" toolset in about a week and as this
includes my own shell, editor and similar, most of the problems seen by others
did not apply to me personally. The main result from the upcomming Solaris and
the new Intel support was the development of the Schily Makefile System for
better portability in spring 1992 when the first Solaris-2.1 x86 copies have
been available.
The company I worked for at that time (Berthold AG the second biggest Sun OEM
at that time) had real problems from the fact that SunOS-5.x did no longer
support SunView. As a result, Sun did backport SunOS-4.x to the new sun4m line.
Wrong decisions that result in incompatibility to previous releases may be a
problem for customers and costomers in general need more than 5 years to get
ready for a major technology change that does not implement a path for smooth
transition.
Jörg
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