> But it was a lot of fun. Indeed! On my first day I was given a non-working SPARC box and told to get the latest Solaris working (in the early days of Solaris

> But it was a lot of fun. Indeed! On my first day I was given a non-working SPARC box and told to get the latest Solaris working (in the early days of Solaris, when many were on SunOS). So much fun! Want to receive email? Make sure to configure sendmail correctly. And NFS to get to teamware. And so on. Never been so happy in a tech wonderland. Difficult to explain to a generation raised on third-party paid cloud services. > Then the “idiot” in question, who happened to have designed the chip the code was taking to The deep hardcore tech expertise across the board was so incredible at Sun. Nowhere before or after have I experienced that. Miss it a lot.