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> but ok that story is dated

I'm struggling to think of the last time I saw a commercial unix -- we still had solaris on some new machines until about 2006 - the last I remember was the x4500 with ZFS.

Our sun sysadmin contractor (whose full time job it was to look after about 10 solaris machines) was a big fan of ksh at the time.

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I used a Sun workstation as late as 2008, but by that time it was ancient and kept around only for the expensive engineering software that wouldn’t run anywhere else. Even at the time, using CDE felt like a blast from the past. I didn’t dig too deep because I wasn’t using it for long, but I’m pretty sure the vi was original.

Your date range is correct ;)

But some companies are even slower to migrate

Anyway I don't know how the builtin shell was called, maybe simply sh but it was also a big no no for me

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