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From: lane@SUMEX-AIM.STANFORD.EDU (Christopher Lane)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: {Stanford,Berkeley} & Sun (was: Yale Pricing)
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Date: 12 Oct 90 15:36:19 GMT
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In <291@heaven.woodside.ca.us>, glenn@heaven.woodside.ca.us writes:
>Wasn't Sun started by people from Stanford, not Berkeley?  SUN used
>to stand for Stanford University Network, the way I heard it.

You've got the original name expansion correct--the first SUN workstations
were built at Stanford and ran Berkeley Unix, eventually anyway.  That sort of
puts the machine somewhere in the middle of San Francisco Bay.  (Just where
I'd like to put all their keyboards. ;-)

In addition to our operational Sun-3's and Sun-4's, we've got Sun-2's and a
Sun-1 sitting around our machine room.  Our (diskless) Sun-1 would still be up
and running if hadn't pulled out the 3MB (experimental) Ethernet.

I apologize for the fact that this reply has no useful NeXT information though
I guess it does fit in with other messages to comp.sys.next in that regard.
Now that NeXT has 15,000 new orders, does that mean we're going to see twice
the number of 'how do I put my ThinNet NeXT on our ThickNet cable' questions
than have been already been posted?  Just something to look forward to.

- Christopher

When I went to the Boston Computer Museum in Spring '89, I realized that the
only difference between it and our machine room was that our Alto was running.
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