SunIPC -- it sounded like a good idea at the time. . .

Sun's East Coast Division uses a hardware shotgun to marry DOS to UNIX.

An ill-considered union doomed from the start.

Let's see, we'll buy our BIOS from Phoenix, our DOS from Microsoft, we'll write a lot of glue-routines ourselves; on the hardware side we'll overide the system bus whenever DOS and UNIX cannot agree who's really in control. . . and we'll give a part-time writer (one of our Curators) two months to mix and match documentation from three vendors, write three chapters of his own, and arrange for the book to be printed and distributed by an entirely hostile west coast publications group out at the Sun mother ship in Mountain View. . .