#sunmicrosystems
Does anyone have a 3D model of the stand for the Sun Ray 3 Plus? Or the stand itself? I'm willing to pay for the stand and shipping for it.
#sun #sunmicrosystems #sunray #thinclient #thinclients
I ended up starting on the 8th, which was… 25 years ago today. #sunmicrosystems
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
Following the recent request on a similar topic:
if somebody could help to get ILOM/BIOS firmware for SunFire X2270, or direct me where I could download it without a support contract, I'd really appreciate that.
#Solaris #SolarisDiaspora #SunMicrosystems
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...
- Abeit sgi hals self-inflicted that by removing the reasons to buy their stuff when they switched to #Itanium #CPU|s and #nvidia #GPU|s and not developing #IRIX any further!
#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!
- Meanwhile #Apple to this day doesn't even halfass #Servers anymore and is constantly giving customers and espechally professionals the middle finger in terms of #Repairability & #Maintainability!
@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.
- Without that cooperative atmosphere we saw #OpenOffice devs literally forking off into @libreoffice and projects like #illumos and @openzfs scramble to save what was OpenSource'd and also rescue 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...
- Which is sad because #competition breeds #innovation and a lot of stuff like #Zones in Solaris really were at their time really forcing #KVM, #bhyve and #BSDjails to up their game for good.
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"...
- Still I do am sad that I declined that #sysadmin position at a leading research center I'm not at liberty to name and I do know there's OFC still some critical infrastructure running even older Solaris servers...
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.)
Just realised I now have an extra sparc compatible pci graphics card. And some quite nicely specced headlese sparc servers. Wonder if they could be combined to make a workstation? #ultrasparc #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.
30 anni fa. Ho fatto in tempo a studiarlo. Mamma mia come sono vecchio 
. #Java | #Oracle https://www.java.com/en/ #SunMicrosystems