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Oracle exhumes ‘Older, Still Useful Content’ penned by Solaris and SPARC veterans
Oracle has done something a little odd: exhuming ancient blog posts about Solaris and SPARC by former Sun luminaries that have moved on to other things. The company released one batch in December 2020 when it announced the restoration of 13 articles, dating back to 2006, by former Senior Principal Software Engineer Darryl Gove …
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Saturday 30th January 2021 19:30 GMT Mike 16
Re: Old stuff un ones CV
I included IBM 1401 on mine until 1995 or so. I figured I'd save some time for myself and some interviewers. You know the sort, "guy looked good on paper and has done some impressive work but he probably still has a blunderbuss for hunting pterandons in his desk drawer. No hire" after wasting our time.
Turned out sort of counter-productive when the Y2K effort started heating up.
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Friday 29th January 2021 20:57 GMT weyhey
Re: RE: where did that article go
An officially sponsored open-source release of SunOS 4.x, with their ancient compilers & NeWS etc. would do a lot to mend old wounds and do good in the view of posterity.
But, that's like trying to reason with a lawn mower, and would likely cost millions in lawyer fees to figure out who owns ThE iNtElEkShUl PrOpArTaY.
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Friday 29th January 2021 21:34 GMT Yet Another Anonymous coward
Which sounds like once Oracle staff leave the building
Hey boss you know when bob retired last week ?
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Well he setup the original master CVS (*) repository for Oracle
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Well all his stuff got auto-deleted when his account was closed
* They are planning migrating to SVN any day now
** Seriously we have a vital service account that was registered with an email address for our initial company name, we don't own that domain anymore. If we ever need to reset that password we are fscked.
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