OTD 1992: Insanely over-the-top water war at #SunMicrosystems between SunSoft and Sun Labs.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io&ab_channel=TomLyon
OTD 1992: Insanely over-the-top water war at #SunMicrosystems between SunSoft and Sun Labs.
Video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Q851fnC4io&ab_channel=TomLyon
My @postcrossing 20th birthday merch arrived! The #tea is an #Assam from the #Panitola estate, and the keyboard in the background is a #SunMicrosystems type 7.
Carl Svensson analyzes the early 1990s rumors of Commodore and Sun considering licensing an Amiga Unix workstation or its software. I wonder whether Tom Lyon @aka_pugs has any insight.
It's always nice to add another Unix workstation to the database and "The Fugitive" obliges with some shots of a Sun Microsystems SPARCstation 1, along with a more mundane IBM PS/2 Model 50/70.
http://www.starringthecomputer.com/newsitem.html?i=2025-06-29%2011:07
#NeWS (Network extensible Window System) was a windowing system developed by Sun Microsystems, released in 1986. It employed client-server architecture with the client side programmable using Object Oriented PostScript. NeWS was created by James Gosling, who later developed Java
#UNIX #XWINDOW #SUNMICROSYSTEMS
Via unix_byte
Who knows if Microsoft was copy those guys to create F#, but Scala is a functional Java, and F# a functional C#, that is a copy of Java
#code #programming #microsoft #technology #software #java #csharp #scala #j++ #fsharp #sunmicrosystems #history
With macOS Tahoe release we all recall Aqua interface from the past, forgetting SUN Microsystem's Looking Glass project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXv8VlpoK_g
@DenOfEarth @ytc1 @aka_pugs well #WindowsNT owned the workstation market because #Vendors like #SGI & #Sun failed to innovate...
#SunMicrosystems at least didn't stall in terms of #Software, but once #Oracle acqured them and started shaking down Sun Technology users for "#IP infringement" and "License Violations" they basically made using anythibg but #Linux a bad choice on #Servers!
@ytc1 @DenOfEarth @aka_pugs I know.
And espechally in #ScientificComputing a lot of researchers loved working with #SunMicrosystems and when #Oracle took over that relationship got sour'd instantly due to #Oracle #CEO #LarryEllison...
-> https://infosec.space/@kkarhan/114682503920794745
One of the big successes of #Sun was that they basically declared a unilateral "ceasefire" in terms of #IP & #Patents re: #OpenSource. Whereas Oracle didn't seem willing to honour that.
Obviously #Linux with it's #GPLv2only-Kernel and most of it's Userland could not get 'closed-sourced' like #OpenSolaris which instantly got stomped out by Oracle as they wanted to sqeeze #Solaris for profits and milk their clients in typical Oracle fashion...
Now granted, I do know someone who for most of their life made their money dealing with the intricacies of setting up #postfix, #sendmail and #courier #MailServers on Solaris and if I ask said person about that they give me a kilometer stare, so OFC like a #SysV - #Unix systems Solaris and #SunOS really are one of the reasons #WindowsNT won the "#WorkstationWar" and why - if anyone - #Apple won the last "#UnixWar"...
OTD 2005: #SunMicrosystems open-sources #Solaris. 20 years!
https://www.cnet.com/tech/tech-industry/sun-begins-open-source-solaris-era/
@aka_pugs Another funny story. I first met Terry Miller when I interviewed with him at HP Labs after I graduated mid 1986. I didn’t get the job. I did get a job a #Sun and I started later that year. Not long after, who did I see walking down the hall at Sun for HIS interview, was Terry Miller. And Sun hired him and he got a patent out of it too.
Another great Jon Feiber story. In the 1980s Sun had weekly beer busts and there was a raffle where the cash prize was based on the week’s sales bookings, or something like that. One week, Feiber won the raffle. But he had just been promoted to management, and managers weren’t eligible for the raffle. So Feiber sent an announcement saying he was donating the winnings to his favorite non-profit: Sun’s Software Products Division.
(SPD was run by Eric Schmidt at the time.)
@wohali had a friend who had a working Enterprise 10000. I have a 5500 in a 5000 cabinet so it only takes the space of a refrigerator, but it doesnt serve beer! #unix #sunmicrosystems #solaris
OK, it's finally finally up. currently #gcc , #coreutils , plus some support libraries, as a proof of concept. For those who don't know, FractalKit is an in-progress collection of modern packages built for #Solaris 10 #SPARC, and they may work on #Solaris 11 also. They can be downloaded at https://highenergymagic.net/fractalkit/ - please let us know if there are any bugs, issues, what have you.
OTD 1992: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 10, the first Sun desktop multiprocessor.
Brochure: https://www.1000bit.it/js/web/viewer.html?file=%2Fad%2Fbro%2Fsun%2Fsparcstation10%2Epdf
@VD15 I'm still mad that #FTC & @EUCommission allowed #Oracle to buy #SunMicrosystems!
An interview with James Gosling on the 30th anniversary of Java. It's a good profile of the man and his work as I knew little about him.
At Sun, Gosling found a rare environment where technical excellence could thrive alongside playful creativity — an atmosphere that clearly shaped his approach to technology and problem-solving throughout his career.
https://thenewstack.io/java-at-30-the-genius-behind-the-code-that-changed-tech/
Switzerland is hosting Eurovision this year. How did the country that produced one of the most iconic fonts of all time, that’s even named after their country, decide to use Garamond?!
Helvetica would have been perfection.
(I do appreciate that Garamond italic insofar as it reminds me of the Sun Microsystems wordmark)
Wow, a rich & insightful story, beautifully told.
A period of incredible creativity and enterprise.
"We each followed the other around for a while, thinking they had been there already." Ha, yes, I had a similar experience once, in my field. Thus seniority comes about.
Also, I love the way you use photographs / illustrations as section headings in your blog, brilliant!