9 Apr
2021
9 Apr
'21
5:11 p.m.
On Fri, Apr 9, 2021 at 10:10 AM Tom Lyon <pugs(a)ieee.org> wrote:
Prior to Sun, Andy had a company called VLSI
Technology, Inc. which
licensed SUN designs to 5-10 companies, including Forward Technology and
CoData, IIRC. The SUN IPR effectively belonged to Andy, but I don't know
what kind of legal arrangement he had with Stanford. But the design was
not generally public, and relied on CAD tools only extant on the Stanford
PDP-10. Cisco did start with the SUN-1 processor, though whether they got
it from Andy or direct from Stanford is not known to me. When Cisco
started (1984), the Sun-1 was long dead already at Sun.
Bits passing in the night -- this very much is what I remember, expereinced.
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