Sun Microsystems

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Sun Microsystems (Sun) was founded in California in 1982. They were started as a spin-off from Stanford University, to build the Stanford University Network 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.

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