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From: cleary@husc8.harvard.edu (Kenneth Cleary)
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Subject: Re: ~8-job "knee" in response curves on Suns (was Re: IBM RS6000)
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Date: 16 Jan 91 09:36:53 GMT
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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).
I'm sorry.  I know I shouldn't nit-pick, but... :-) I will nit-pick a 
nit-picker :-)  If you read _Sunburst:_The_Ascent_of_Sun_Microsystems_ 
(by Hall & Barry) I think you'll find that while no one will explicitly admit
it, there is a feeling that S.U.N. stands for Stanford University Network,
which is what Andy Bechtolsheim built his computer for.