Comments by "" (@ronjon7942) on "The Dawn and Dusk of Sun Microsystems" video.

  1.  @cv990a4 that is true; if you were using AIX (my favorite, I so miss it), you could choose to install the Linux Toolbox, which provided a TON of linux utilities and software on Power. I worked at IBM then, but left to become an AIX admin. It did seem like an expensive way to run Linux, but it was a sign of what was to come: LOP, or Linux on Power. Poor me, tho; while AIX is still around, and crazy awesome, the vast majority of today’s Power runs Linux flavors - read the huge clusters at ONRL: Summit, although since replaced by a Cray, I believe. But IBM lost it’s way. It gutted its platforms except forr Mainframe and RedHat, and has even split into two companies…I lost interest in it after it lost its soul. Thanks to Sam and even more to Ginni and their kisses of death. I’m not bitter tho :)
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