Newsgroups: comp.arch Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer) Subject: Re: ~8-job "knee" in response curves on Suns (was Re: IBM RS6000) Message-ID: <1991Jan16.182107.4176@zoo.toronto.edu> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology References: <1991Jan10.214122.9506@news.arc.nasa.gov> <5257@auspex.auspex.com> <21588@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 18:21:07 GMT In article <21588@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) 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. "SUN" and "Sun" are not the same thing. "SUN" stood for Stanford University Network, yes... but "Sun" is short for "Sun Microsystems Inc". While I'm sure the similarity is not accidental :-), given that Sun Microsystems was formed basically to commercialize the SUN hardware, the company's name is not an acronym. -- If the Space Shuttle was the answer, | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology what was the question? | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry