Oh Chuck could probably tell you a lot more than I. I bailed after they surrendered in the Window System Wars! ;) https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-su

Oh Chuck could probably tell you a lot more than I. I bailed after they surrendered in the Window System Wars! ;) https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-pizzatool-2a7992b4c797 https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-story-of-sun-microsystems-... >The Story of Sun Microsystems PizzaTool: How I accidentally ordered my first pizza over the internet. My housemate scanned and posted to twitter some of the beautiful dreamy surrealistic photo spreads from some old 80's era Sun 4 brochures that I saved. Primo hacker fapping material of the time. The runway shot is my favorite! https://twitter.com/miuott/status/1238181870816366592 https://twitter.com/miuott/status/1238181870816366592 He uploaded the whole Sun 4/200 series brochure to the Internet Archive for your self indulgent pleasures: https://archive.org/details/sun4200seriesbrochure https://archive.org/details/sun4200seriesbrochure Notes from watching the video: 1:10 -- Stanfurd! ;) 3:20 -- Bill Joy: "He also conceptualized an internet-friendly language called JavaScript." WTF?!? Bill Joy didn't invent JavaScript. He was involved with Java, which James Gosling invented, but the language Bill Joy conceptualized in 1991 he called "C++++-=". https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-million-instructions-per-second-3a8c92165cfe https://donhopkins.medium.com/bill-joys-law-2-year-1984-mill... >Bill Joy’s Law: 2^(Year-1984) Million Instructions per Second: The peak computer speed doubles each year and thus is given by a simple function of time. Specifically, S = 2^(Year-1984), in which S is the peak computer speed attained during each year, expressed in MIPS. -Wikipedia, Joy’s law (computing) [...] >C++++-= >“C++++-= is the new language that is a little more than C++ and a lot less.” -Bill Joy >In this talk from 1991, Bill Joy predicts a new hypothetical language that he calls “C++++-=”, which adds some things to C++, and takes away some other things.