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> Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design. For those interested:
by Semaphor 4y ago
> Just the four letters D U N E, which are exactly the same shape but rotated 90 degrees. It's an incredibly simple and effective design.
For those interested: https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B08HPFCMLS.01._SCLZZZZZZZ_SX500_.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/P/B08HPFCMLS.01._SCLZZZZZZ...
- Zecc 4y agoSee also: Sun Microsystems' logo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Logo.svg
- Cockbrand 4y agoWhen I went to my first computer fair as a teenager, I saw the Sun Microsystems booth and was blown away by the fantastic logo. As I had never seen a Unix machine before, I didn’t know what to do with the computers on display, though.
- noisy_boy 4y agoThe very first Unix I was exposed to was from Sun; I remember seeing the logo on their servers and thinking that those were the most beautiful computers I had seen (which isn't much because I had hardly seen any servers before that). I still remember that one of those came with a key (forgot whether to turn it on or lock the power button panel?)
- dylan604 4y agoDidn't Sun computers run Irix? Is Irix Unix?
- detaro 4y agoIRIX was SGI, not Sun (and anyways yes, it's a Unix).
- dylan604 4y agoThanks for clarifying. I always thought these other named systems were Unix-like but not Unix but without going all recursive like GNU with the naming
- TickleSteve 4y agoThe history of UNIX is complex... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Unix)
- an1sotropy 4y agoSuns ran Solaris, of course.
- jjtheblunt 4y agoSunOS was BSD-ish originally, then around 1994 they shifted to a more SVR4 variant and rebranded to Solaris. I think Solaris 2.x was SVR4 and Solaris 1.x was BSD retronaming of what was SunOS named earlier. It's been a while so I may not have the numbers quite right. Anyway, there was some overlap in nomenclature, so a version bump of the SunOS naming (and Solaris numbering) implied a shift from BSD-ish to SVR4-ish, as I recall. (And I worked for Sun for a while after that, and used Suns a ton around the shift)
- NikkiA 4y ago"SunOS is the kernel, Solaris is the distribution as a whole" was how I was always told it went. Solaris 1.x used a SunOS 4.x kernel, Solaris 2.x and upwards used SunOS 5.x. Version synchronicity was achieved by jumping from Solaris 2.6/SunOS 5.6 to Solaris 7.x/SunOS 5.7 in 1998 when UltraSPARC support was introduced. Of course Solaris 11.x/SunOS 5.11 was the last version.
- danparsonson 4y agoGosh I've seen that so many times before and yet never really looked at it until now.
- radiowave 4y agoAh, as if raked into the sand. Brilliant.
- MalcolmDwyer 4y agoSome Unicode variants: ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᑕ ᑐ ᑌ ᑎ ᕮ ⊃ ∪ ∩ ⊂ Edit to add one more... ⋻ ⋃ ⋂ ⋳
- edaemon 4y agoI imagine most people are aware but the second variant you have there is essentially what was used for the most recent movie: http://www.impawards.com/2021/posters/dune_ver16_xlg.jpg http://www.impawards.com/2021/posters/dune_ver16_xlg.jpg
- djur 4y agoThere were a lot of "DUNC" jokes about the poster, like that the main character was named "Dunc". (Real Dune heads may have some "well, actually" thoughts about that.)
- yellowapple 4y agoI reckon Dune fans find all sorts of deeper meaning in the hit B-52s song "Private Idaho".
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 4y agoOMG the DUNC joke predates the new movie.