OTD 1992: Insanely over-the-top water war at #SunMicrosystems between SunSoft and Sun Labs.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io&ab_channel=TomLyon
OTD 1992: Insanely over-the-top water war at #SunMicrosystems between SunSoft and Sun Labs.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io&ab_channel=TomLyon
Carl Svensson analyzes the early 1990s rumors of Commodore and Sun considering licensing an Amiga Unix workstation or its software. I wonder whether Tom Lyon @aka_pugs has any insight.
It's always nice to add another Unix workstation to the database and "The Fugitive" obliges with some shots of a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 1, along with a more mundane IBM PS/2 Model 50/70.
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2025-06-29%2011:07
Who knows if Microsoft was copy those guys to create F#, but Scala is a functional Java, and F# a functional C#, that is a copy of Java
#code #programming #microsoft #technology #software #java #csharp #scala #j++ #fsharp #sunmicrosystems #history
OTD 2005: #SunMicrosystems open-sources #Solaris. 20 years!
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/
OTD 1992: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 10, the first Sun desktop multiprocessor.
Brochure: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparcstation10%2Epdf
An interview with James Gosling on the 30th anniversary of Java. It's a good profile of the man and his work as I knew little about him.
At Sun, Gosling found a rare environment where technical excellence could thrive alongside playful creativity — an atmosphere that clearly shaped his approach to technology and problem-solving throughout his career.
https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/
Switzerland is hosting Eurovision this year. How did the country that produced one of the most iconic fonts of all time, that’s even named after their country, decide to use Garamond?!
Helvetica would have been perfection.
(I do appreciate that Garamond italic insofar as it reminds me of the Sun Microsystems wordmark)
Wow, a rich & insightful story, beautifully told.
A period of incredible creativity and enterprise.
"We each followed the other around for a while, thinking they had been there already." Ha, yes, I had a similar experience once, in my field. Thus seniority comes about.
Also, I love the way you use photographs / illustrations as section headings in your blog, brilliant!
43 years ago today: Joining #SunMicrosystems
Followers who are at all interested in the #history of #computing, read this!
got a sparcstation but no keyboard or mouse? tired of having to reprogram your idprom over and over?
usb3sun lets you connect usb keyboards and mice to your sun workstation, and it can reprogram your idprom with just a few keystrokes
rev B1 now available → https://go.daz.cat/usb3sun
OTD 1989: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 1. Datasheet: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparc%2Fsparcstation1%2Epdf#zoom=page-fit
Purple feet!
Someone near Frankfurt is giving away two Sun StorEDGE units. I wish I had a house so I could adopt these.
https://www.kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/sun-microsystems-storedge-l700e-l180/3041337943-225-4501
I should put this in a museum. These white Sun drive spuds are unobtanium. And I’ve got the matching drive!
**Sun Microsystems’s Storage History – The Early Years**
https://ethw.org/First-Hand:Sun_Microsystems%E2%80%99s_Storage_History_%E2%80%93_The_Early_Years
#SunMicrosystems
Stumbling stock market raises specter of Dot-Com era reckoning, ET Telecom https://www.byteseu.com/857882/ #AI #amazon #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #DotComBubble #Meta #microsoft #StockMarket #SunMicrosystems
https://www.europesays.com/1938081/ Stumbling stock market raises specter of Dot-Com era reckoning, ET Telecom #AI #Amazon #Apple #ArtificialIntelligence #DotComBubble #Meta #Microsoft #StockMarket #SunMicrosystems
OTD 1986: #SunMicrosystems Initial Public Offering. Red Herring: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MXh04jhmrqIO8hbCs7pRxlEZ-ql59s7R/view?usp=sharing