[rescue] [Semi-OT] Sun History

[Bill Bradford]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 10:04:19PM -0700, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> One of the museum displays says that the original SUN used Stanford HW
> (the CPU), with Berkeley SW (BSD). 
> Later they adopted SPARC, which was based on Berkeley's research. So
> shouldn't have they changed their name to BUN then? :-) If they wanted to
> continue being "Stanford" they should have adopted MIPS

Well, by the time the SPARC rolled around ('88? '89?) I think that
it had gone from "SUN" as in "Stanford University Network", to being
"SUN" (not an acronym).

I do prefer the old-style logo and typeface (sun3-ish) tho...

Bill

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Bill Bradford
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Austin, TX