8 Apr
2021
8 Apr
'21
1:04 a.m.
Larry McVoy writes:
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 12:18:04AM +0200, Thomas
Paulsen wrote:
John may be sort of right, I bet avb was building 68k machines at
Stanford before SUN was founded. Sun stood for Stanford University
Network I believe.
--lm
Larry is correct. I remember visiting a friend of mind, Gary Newman,
who was working at Lucasfilm in '81. He showed me a bunch of stuff
that they were doing on Stanford University Network boards.
Full disclosure, it was Gary and Paul Rubinfeld who ended up at DEC
and I believe was the architect for the microVax who told me about
the explorer scout post at BTL which is how I met Heinz.
Jon
From: John
Gilmore <gnu(a)toad.com>
Sun was making 68000-based systems in 1981, before the IBM PC was created.
Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. The Sun-1 was launched in May 1982.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1