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Sun Microsystems: A Lesson in Failed Cosmetic Surgery
- cpr 18y agoSad to see Sun die. I remember the first heady days of Bill Joy and crew--they were neighbors of ours (back at Imagen, a laser printer startup) in Mountain View in 1980, and we traded printers for workstations. We shared the SUN (Stanford University Network--original acronym--licensed from Stanford) 68K CPU board design with them; they used it in workstations, we used it in the first typeset-quality laser printers, and for a while were sharing technology improvements. (Imagen was a TeX project spin-off.) Exciting times; Sun was the last successful major hardware start-up before the PC era. Now get off my lawn, you pesky young kids! ;-)