joene extra
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OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.
OTD 1982: The founding of #SunMicrosystems.
Jamey Sharp
boosted
A 1985 Computer Chronicles segment about the brand new company SUN Microsystems.
Featuring Bill Joy, the segment goes on to express doubts that UNIX will ever catch on in the business world.
"UNIX will be important if it can deliver applications that people want to run."
Nothing he says is wrong, but in 1985 I can only imagine what it felt like.
A 1985 Computer Chronicles segment about the brand new company SUN Microsystems.
Featuring Bill Joy, the segment goes on to express doubts that UNIX will ever catch on in the business world.
"UNIX will be important if it can deliver applications that people want to run."
Nothing he says is wrong, but in 1985 I can only imagine what it felt like.
Dan Phiffer
and 2 others
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OTD 1968: The Mother of All Demos, by Douglas Engelbart and William English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
I knew Bill English 20 years later when he was working for #SunMicrosystems.
OTD 1968: The Mother of All Demos, by Douglas Engelbart and William English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY
I knew Bill English 20 years later when he was working for #SunMicrosystems.
Michael Dexter
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NFS at 40.
Phenomenal collection of seminal documents, related work, source code, ephemera, etc...
NFS at 40.
Phenomenal collection of seminal documents, related work, source code, ephemera, etc...
OTD 1985: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun-3 workstation family & architecture.
TBH, the Sun-3 was always my favorite.
OTD 1999: #SunMicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html
Michael Dexter
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OTD 1991: #SunMicrosystems announces #Solaris name and strategy.
OTD 1991: #SunMicrosystems announces #Solaris name and strategy.
Stefano Marinelli
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Is it #suntember again?
Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.
~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos
#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems
Is it #suntember again?
Just got a fresh Tribblix installation on SPARCv9 (Sun Netra X1).
Thanks @ptribble@illumos.cafe for keeping this up.
~ $ uname -a
SunOS tribblix 5.11 tribblix-m32 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraAX-i2 illumos
#illumos #tribblix #sparc #sunmicrosystems
Carl Svensson analyzes the early 1990s rumors of Commodore and Sun considering licensing an Amiga Unix workstation or its software. I wonder whether Tom Lyon @aka_pugs has any insight.
OTD 1989: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 1. Datasheet: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit
Purple feet!
