Around 2000 or so, I used to work in tech support for a software company who had like 5000 Windows-based customers and 5 running Solaris. My boss chose me to learn Solaris when the previous “expert” left. I bought this book and started hacking. Good times!

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    In high school I had Sun sparc 5 And then an ultra 60, Solaris was a pretty sweet OS back in the day

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      How did you get a Sun Sparc 5 and Ultra 60 as a high school student? You were able to get them used from a college that had recently upgraded or something?

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        In the late 90s they were a couple hundred bucks on eBay. Passed their usefulness as workstations. I still have the ultra 60 but couldn’t find a scsi three hard drive to replace the original when it died

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      Solaris is actually kinda cool now. It was based on a great OS and actually has been improved since.

      We can’t do much about who owns it, but I’m glad to see someone’s looking after it – unlike when IBM found the loophole and reverted AT&T Unix ownership back to novell to just rot. Good job.