From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 01:51:47 -0000 (UTC), Waldek Hebisch wrote:   
      
   > First, backwards compatibility is a powerful force blocking possible   
   > improvement. I was using Sun OS and Solaris in nineties. Later I   
   > looked at Solaris from 2007. In 2007 they shipped crappy '/bin/sh'   
   > which had exactly the same problems as I remembered from my earlier   
   > use. I suspect that it was bug-for-bug compatible with '/bin/sh'   
   > which they shipped in 1984. And I suspect that if you get current   
   > Solaris from Oracle, you will get the same crappy '/bin/sh'.   
      
   It was quite common for Unix admins, back in the day, as soon as they   
   had set up a new machine, to install the GNU tools (bash etc) on it.   
   That way, you didn’t have to put up with the crappy, proprietary,   
   vendor-provided tools.   
      
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