From cym224 at gmail.com  Thu May  2 11:01:20 2019
From: cym224 at gmail.com (Nemo Nusquam)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 21:01:20 -0400
Subject: [COFF] Life under the Sun
Message-ID: <0de5b5b4-8749-79ea-681f-0df6330a5ede@gmail.com>

I just finished reading "Life under the Sun" by David Yen, a 296-page 
collection of anecdotes in historical order covering his 20y at Sun.  An 
amusing, and sometimes sad, read.

Here are two: (1) During the Serengeti project, Sunsoft lost the only 
person who knew FORTH and they waited two months to find someone to 
modify the OBF.  (2) Google's purchasing dep't rejected their engineers' 
purchase requisitions for T1 machines because they were single-sourced, 
despite running their search s/w six times faster than comparably priced 
Intel boxes.

N.

From lm at mcvoy.com  Thu May  2 11:39:53 2019
From: lm at mcvoy.com (Larry McVoy)
Date: Wed, 1 May 2019 18:39:53 -0700
Subject: [COFF] Life under the Sun
In-Reply-To: <0de5b5b4-8749-79ea-681f-0df6330a5ede@gmail.com>
References: <0de5b5b4-8749-79ea-681f-0df6330a5ede@gmail.com>
Message-ID: <20190502013953.GQ19597@mcvoy.com>

That's a name I haven't heard for a long time.  I knew David, he is
a good guy.  Smart guy.

Do you have a link?

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 09:01:20PM -0400, Nemo Nusquam wrote:
> I just finished reading "Life under the Sun" by David Yen, a 296-page
> collection of anecdotes in historical order covering his 20y at Sun.  An
> amusing, and sometimes sad, read.
> 
> Here are two: (1) During the Serengeti project, Sunsoft lost the only person
> who knew FORTH and they waited two months to find someone to modify the OBF.
> (2) Google's purchasing dep't rejected their engineers' purchase
> requisitions for T1 machines because they were single-sourced, despite
> running their search s/w six times faster than comparably priced Intel
> boxes.
> 
> N.
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From wkt at tuhs.org  Thu May  2 11:47:47 2019
From: wkt at tuhs.org (Warren Toomey)
Date: Thu, 2 May 2019 11:47:47 +1000
Subject: [COFF] Life under the Sun
In-Reply-To: <20190502013953.GQ19597@mcvoy.com>
References: <0de5b5b4-8749-79ea-681f-0df6330a5ede@gmail.com>
 <20190502013953.GQ19597@mcvoy.com>
Message-ID: <20190502014747.GA12997@minnie.tuhs.org>

On Wed, May 01, 2019 at 06:39:53PM -0700, Larry McVoy wrote:
> That's a name I haven't heard for a long time.  I knew David, he is
> a good guy.  Smart guy.
> Do you have a link?

It's on Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/LIFE-UNDER-SUN-20-Year-Microsystems-ebook/dp/B07D6YBSWR

Cheers, Warren