9 Apr
2021
9 Apr
'21
11:29 a.m.
Jason Stevens wrote:
> Is there any solid info on the Stanford SUN boards?
July 1979. This seems to hint at future graphical workstations,
but the concept has not settled.
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yj974vz9257/yj974vz9257.pdf
March 1980. The SUN workstation seems to be designed. However, it's a
multi user machine with up to 16 displays, rather than a single user
workstation.
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:gg867qx3134/gg867qx3134.pdf
January 1981. Still a work in progress. Number of display is down
to two for a "VLSI workstation", or eight for a "terminal cluster".
https://stacks.stanford.edu/file/druid:yx961bt1370/yx961bt1370.pdf
March 1982. This is probably the final design with a single 1024x800
display.
http://i.stanford.edu/pub/cstr/reports/csl/tr/82/229/CSL-TR-82-229.pdf