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> Mind you, the screen wasn't quite as nice... Yeah, I remember as a kid when I visited my father's work. They had Sun workstations with massive 21" razor shar
by jabl 6y ago
> Mind you, the screen wasn't quite as nice...
Yeah, I remember as a kid when I visited my father's work. They had Sun workstations with massive 21" razor sharp (for the time) grayscale monitors, compared to the tiny 14" monitor we had at home for our PC. And they had magical preemptive multitasking where a misbehaving application didn't bring the whole system down! ZOMG!
- PaulDavisThe1st 6y agoSun pioneered the "3M" model (were M meant "mega"): * 1 MB of RAM * 1 megapixels on the screen * 1 MHz CPU In the day, it seemed like unimaginable power! :)
- arethuza 6y agoThe first time I saw a Sun was in '87/'88 and it was a demo during the Vision class in the final year of my CS degree - what completely blew me away was the size and clarity of the screen and the fact it was running Unix.
- guenthert 6y agoYou might be misremembering. The 3M (megapixel/MiB/MIPS) was a set goal of project Athena. http://web.mit.edu/acs/athena.html http://web.mit.edu/acs/athena.html Edit: 3M was not a set goal of project Athena (they merely meant to use such), but a term coined by Raj Reddy of CMU. The SUN-1 workstation was indeed an early machine meeting that requirement.