Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!cernvax!chx400!bernina!neptune!inf.ethz.ch!brandis From: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: ~8-job "knee" in response curves on Suns (was Re: IBM RS6000) Message-ID: <21588@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: 16 Jan 91 07:54:29 GMT References: <1991Jan10.214122.9506@news.arc.nasa.gov> <5257@auspex.auspex.com> Sender: news@neptune.inf.ethz.ch Reply-To: brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) Organization: Departement Informatik, ETH, Zurich Lines: 14 In article <5257@auspex.auspex.com> guy@auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes: >("SunOS", not "SUNOS", please; in Sun's name, "Sun" isn't an acronym). Are you sure that Sun is not an acronym? I remember having heard that SUN comes from "Stanford University Network", a project from which the very first Sun machines were derived. Sorry about posting this here, but it just showed up in this group. Marc-Michael Brandis Computer Systems Laboratory, ETH-Zentrum (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland email: brandis@inf.ethz.ch