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Belated OpenSolaris Birthday Celebration

OpenSolaris is the next OE on my list to learn about.

I couldn't make Mozilla speak IRC at the office and couldn't take the time to go find something that worked. So I missed the celebration of the first birthday of OpenSolaris. Here's a progression cum evolutionary tribute.

This is an incomplete and not quite correctly ordered list of the operating environments I've spent a reasonable amount of time using or that I had a hand in writing:
Univac Exec VIII
Univac APL
Unnamed OE (I wrote this on the bare metal of a Data General Nova 1200 while we [Univ. of Alabama Huntsville Isolation Lab] were waiting for our Nova 2+software order to be filled. It used a decent quality 300 baud cassette tape drive of some sort and a very nice 300 baud thermal paper terminal)
Data General RTOS
Data General RDOS
Data General timeshare doc system
Data General AOS
Data General Easy (DG too stupid to ship this)
Texas Instruments DX10
Business Application Systems BASPort
(Wrote part of one VM, one native assembler, one native linker, a native debugger, and various other bits and pieces long forgotten. Other members of the BASPort team included Steve Goldman, Bob Leivian, Don Parce, George Franzen, and my name memory just collapsed. Forest Earl Gilmore managed us [RIP, dear friend].)
SWTP 6800 MIKBUG
SWTP 6809 UNIFLEX (+ Bob Uiterwyk's Basic: Bill's Altair Basic blew chunks)
MSDOS
DRDOS
Unnamed OEs inside Network Products BabyMux, BabyNet and Commponent products (I wrote these with Steve Schleimer and others)
Version 7
System III
Opus Unix
BSD
SVR4
Mach
Linux
Solaris

And now, at long last, OpenSolaris is well and truly in the world. Some times you have to be patient before you end up with something really, really good designed for the long haul. I'm looking forward to running OpenSolaris on an Ultra-20 in my basement as soon as I can. But the download's going to have to get easier.

So:
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday OpenSolaris,
Happy birthday to you,
And many morrrrrrrrrrrre!
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Posted at 11:04PM Jun 15, 2006 by microwaves in Operating Environments  |  Comments[1]