$ X-NEWS: spcvxb rec.humor.funny: 2573P Relay-Version: VMS News - V6.1B4+SPC1 6/9/92 VAX/VMS V5.5-2; site spcvxb.spc.edud Path: spcvxb!rutgers!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!emory!gatech!concert!decwrl!looking!funny-request Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny  Subject: The Day SunOS Died $ Message-ID: <S4eb.a41@looking.on.ca>. From: norm@ctr.columbia.edu (N. R. Norm Lunde) Date: 27 Jan 93 00:30:09 GMT Keywords: smirk, original  Approved: funny@clarinet.com	 Lines: 96     K I made up the following bit of filk during a Computability class.  Hope you  like it.     The Day SunOS Died ===================  Lyrics by N. R. "Norm" Lunde.  Apologies to Don McLean.  ! Remember when those guys out West ) With their longish hair and paisley vests & Were starting up, straight out of UCB? They used those Motorola chips! Which at the time were really hip & And looked upon the world through VME." Their first attempt ran like a pig& But it was the start of something big;" They called the next one the Sun-2 And though they only sold a few  It soon gave birth unto the new  Sun-3 which was their pride  And now they're singing    	"Bye, bye, SunOS 4.1.3!  	 ATT System V has replaced BSD.0 	 You can cling to the standards of the industry' 	 But only if you pay the right fee --  & 	 Only if you pay the right fee . . ."  " The hardware wasn't all they sold." Their Berkeley port was solid gold& And interfaced with System V, no less! They implemented all the stuff% That Berkeley thought would be enough  Then added RPC and NFS.  It was a lot of code to cram Into just four megs of RAM.  The later revs were really cool  With added values like SunTools # But then they took us all for fools  By peddling Solaris . . .  And they were singing,	 	<chorus>   # They took a RISC and kindled SPARC. ' The difference was like light and dark. ) The Sun-4s were the fastest and the best.  The user base was having fun Installing SunOS 4.1. But what was coming no one could have guessed. The installed base was sound And software did abound.( While all the hackers laughed and played Already plans were being made  To make the dubious "upgrade"  To Sun's new Solaris . . . And Sun was singing,	 	<chorus>   ' The cartridge tapes were first to go --  The CD-ROM's a must, you know , And floppy drives will soon go out the door.  I tried to call and ask them why But they took away my TTY % And left my modem lying on the floor.  While they were on a roll  They moved the damned Control. The Ethernet's now twisted pair  Which no one uses anywhere.  ISDN is still more rare --   The bandwidth's even less! But still they're singing 	 	<chorus>   % But worst of all is what they've done  To software that we used to run  Like dbx and even /bin/cc.  Compilers now have license locks# Wrapped up in OpenWindows crocks --  We even have to pay for GCC! The applications broke;  /usr/local went up in smoke. The features we've depended on  Before too long will all be gone! But Sun, I'm sure, will carry on   By peddling Solaris, Forever singing,	 	<chorus>    --O Selected by Maddi Hausmann.  MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. J Attribute the joke's source if at all possible.  A Daemon will auto-reply.  H Remember: PLEASE spell check and proofread your jokes.  You think I have* time to hand-correct everybody's postings?