@nomad Mike gave a great talk at BSDCan a few years ago. It's on youtube somewhere. I remember being at the talk.

@nomad @ytc1 @sblaydes I really only knew Mike Karels (co-worker) and Chris Torek (co-worker). I used to chat with Mike at BSDCan. I remember Chris had kitties purring on phone.
One thing that struck me was how bad the serial port driver was on BSDos compared to FreeBSD. I had to debug a panic due to BSDOS serial console weirdness. I honestly thought we (BSDi) would have been better off just moving to FreeBSD and supporting it that way as BSDOS code was pretty stale in places.

@ytc1 @nomad @sblaydes I worked for BSDi for a few years. They were getting into some embedded BSD systems. I run FreeBSD and OpenBSD but also like NetBSD.

@sblaydes @ytc1 @nomad I was lucky never to have admin a Slowaris box but still had to deal with them. Oh yes that libc and if you didn't deal with all the fd's on a select, it would fall over and die. Ask me how I know.

@oxyhyxo or taking things apart and getting them back together just to see how they work

@sblaydes I certainly do. I still have a SUN 3/60 carcass downstairs and the boot tapes for 4.0.3 and a 4.1.0 I think it was.