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Because it wouldn’t be economic to repair it to “good as new” status.

The people who buy salvage titled cars are usually happy to drive a car that doesn’t work quite right if they get a killer deal for it.

Internally, SCO used to joke that they were “the most popular operating system you haven’t heard of”.

It was (at that time) the best Unix on cheap x86 hardware, so it was deployed everywhere. In gas station pumps, in cash registers, in ATMs, in back office databases. I think SCO made up the majority of Oracle database instances.

Most people interacted with SCO code on a daily basis but didn’t know.

Of course they rapidly lost the x86 UNIX crown to Linux. At the time I was there SCO could still do a lot of stuff well that Linux couldn’t, but the advantages were rapidly going down and the writing was on the wall.

I can’t speak to what it was like to work with them from the outside, but (at least when I was there) they definitely had a fun internal culture.

Small enough to not have a “big company” feel, yet profitable enough (at that time) to not have “startup panic”. Plus lots of cool hackers, including some of the original authors of UNIX, who had joined through the AT&T deal.

Getting stolen is only a problem if you leave your scooter somewhere public. One of the big advantages of an electric scooter over an e-bike is that some of them fold down small enough that you can just carry them wherever you are going.

Nobody is going to steal it if it’s sitting under your desk charging.

This is a great quick reference.

Not enough to actually teach you what all these models do (that would be impossible), but I expect this will be great for times when I see a reference to a model I used to sort of understand and want a quick way to remember what it did.

Bookmarked.