[chris_wot]

“ Believe me that some of us understood this: I worked extensively on both Solaris x86 and with the SPARC microprocessor teams -- and I never hesitated to tell anyone that was listening that our x86 boxes were starting to smoke the hell out of UltraSPARC.”

Was that before or after you realised the Linux kernel devs were better at squeezing performance efficiencies out of x86 than you guys were?

[chris_wot]

Awww.. a little hurt?

[AlexeyBelov]

Why are you hurt? And why does it lead to comments such as above? I think you need to figure that out, because it wasn't a good wholesome comment by any measure.

[chris_wot]

I'm not. But there was a technical discussion made where the kernel devs at the time explained why they were beating the pants off Sun, and Cantrill replied with "have you kissed a girl".

That's the sort of behaviour I'd sack the guy for if he worked for me.

[bcantrill]

Oh brother, this again. To bystanders wondering what the hell this is about, it's actually about two things, the most recent of which was over a decade ago.

The first thing is a regrettable quip of mine on Usenet (RIP) from October 29, 1996 -- just over 29 years ago (!!) as of this writing. As I have made clear several (many?) times over the years, I do very much regret it: I was young and it was stupid.[0]

But that's also not what this is REALLY about, because that decades-old quip on Usenet had itself been forgotten for over a decade when it was dug up in 2013 by people who newly discovered that they hated my guts. And they discovered they hated my guts because they vehemently disagreed with my handling of the the Noordhuis pronoun incident.[1] And on this, I have no regrets -- and will have no regrets.

Hopefully that clears up where the (seemingly limitless) venom is coming from -- with my apologies for dragging confused bystanders into decades-old internet beef!

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9041086

[1] https://bcantrill.dtrace.org/2013/11/30/the-power-of-a-prono...

[chris_wot]

If you worked for me, I would have sacked you over such sexist and misogynistic commentary. I apply to you the same standard you apply to others.

[bcantrill]

I (obviously) don't agree with your characterization, but given that I don't work for you (and won't) and that you don't work for me (and won't) can we just let a decades-old disagreement live in the past? Not that it will stop or dissuade you, but I would point out that following me around on HN just to leave nasty replies is exactly the kind of harassing behavior that you so frequently decry in others...