I grew up when BSD was kinda mature but SVR4 was the "new thing". People, probably inertia, were hating SVR4 and Solaris vs. SunOS (BSD) too. But it was solid.

I grew up when BSD was kinda mature but SVR4 was the "new thing". People, probably inertia, were hating SVR4 and Solaris vs. SunOS (BSD) too. But it was solid. Solaris 5.5.1 and 5.6 were bulletproof, organized, documented, and worked. I don't know who worked for Sun back then, but to you, Thank You! At the time, many UNIX vendors were sparing, warring even. But Solaris is one of the best, purest SVR4 implementations. On top of that it had a very unique and excellent driver model (one of the first), true multi-threaded kernel, and extremely good compiler. And it ran on an extremely well designed post-RISC CPU (UltraSparc). CDE was ... not really the point... Sadly, while it powered that dot-com bubble, that success led to the failure when $50,000 Sun workstations and servers became available for $0.01. If you're going to fail that is the honest way to do so, in my book.