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From: shannon@sun.uucp (Bill Shannon)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: Unix dead??? (long message)
Message-ID: <6096@sun.uucp>
Date: Wed, 13-Aug-86 03:29:51 EDT
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Posted: Wed Aug 13 03:29:51 1986
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> In article <2814@brl-smoke.ARPA> KNIGHT@SRI-NIC.arpa (Bob Knight) writes:
> >I don't doubt that the people who founded SUN read this article.  And they're
> >laughing.  All the way to the bank.
> Actually, SUN had a guaranteed market, selling 68k unix boxes to a university
> to sit on its campus network, namely the Stanford University Network (hence
> the name SUN).  SUN's commercial market came later.

The name of the company is "Sun", it is not an acronym.  SUN is indeed
the Stanford University Network, and that's where we got our start, but
we broke away from that very early on.

					Bill Shannon