From: Larry McVoy <lm@mcvoy.com>
To: Thomas Paulsen <thomas.paulsen@firemail.de>
Cc: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org, pnr@planet.nl
Subject: Re: [TUHS] PC Unix
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2021 15:40:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210407224000.GY11131@mcvoy.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b957aacb94d5f2230afb2442d944d3c2@firemail.de>
On Thu, Apr 08, 2021 at 12:18:04AM +0200, Thomas Paulsen wrote:
> >From: John Gilmore <gnu@toad.com>
> >Sun was making 68000-based systems in 1981, before the IBM PC was created.
>
> Sun was founded on February 24, 1982. The Sun-1 was launched in May 1982.
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun_Microsystems
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sun-1
John may be sort of right, I bet avb was building 68k machines at
Stanford before SUN was founded. Sun stood for Stanford University
Network I believe.
--lm
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-07 8:20 Paul Ruizendaal
2021-04-07 18:04 ` John Gilmore
2021-04-07 22:18 ` Thomas Paulsen
2021-04-07 22:40 ` Larry McVoy [this message]
2021-04-07 23:04 ` Jon Steinhart
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2021-04-07 7:52 Paul Ruizendaal via TUHS
2021-04-07 15:57 ` heinz
2021-04-08 22:31 ` Warner Losh
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