Sun Microsystems
From Computer History Wiki
Sun Microsystems (usually referred to by the simple Sun) was a manufacturer of workstations, founded in California in 1982. They were started as a spin-off from Stanford University, to build the SUN workstation.
Of relevance to hobbyists include their Sun-1, Sun-2, Sun-3 machines, all based on Motorola 68000 Family CPUs, early SPARC-based computers and their software such as NFS, SunOS and Solaris. Sun was acquired by Oracle in 2010.
Further reading
- Mark Hall, John Barry, Sunburst: The Ascent of Sun Microsystems, Contemporary, Chicago, 1990
