[rescue] [Semi-OT] Sun History

[Scotty Logan]

Yup, SUN was originally an acronym for Stanford University Network.
There's apparently still a SUN-1 on campus in the Gates Comp Sci
Building (there's an oxymoron):

http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/SUN.htm

There's a picture of the first Sun board:


There's also the original Google storage system:

http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/voy/museum/pictures/display/0-4-Google.ht
m

Both we spun off (probably through the Office of Technology Licensing),
along with Cisco, Yahoo, SGI & MIPS.

Maybe I'll take the camera into work one day, wander over and take some
pictures.

  Scotty

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Scotty Logan <swl at stanford.edu>
ITSS-CSS http://www.stanford.edu/group/itss/css/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: rescue-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:rescue-admin at sunhelp.org]On
> Behalf Of Zach Malone
> Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 19:29
> To: rescue at sunhelp.org
> Subject: [rescue] [Semi-OT] Sun History
>
>
> Hello,
>     I was browsing over the Sun Hardware Reference
> (http://www.sunhelp.org/faq/sunref1.html), and I found this statement,
>     "
>     100
>         Processor(s):   68000 @ 10MHz
>         Bus:            Multibus, serial
>         Notes:          Uses a design similar to original SUN
> (Stanford
>                         University Network) CPU. The version
> 1.5 CPU can
>                         take larger RAMs.
>     "
>     Anyhow, I am curious, did Sun's name originate from
> Stanford?  Anyone
> know the history of Sun in the early '80s?  Anyone have
> images of a Sun-1
> machine?
>     Zach
>
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