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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Sun</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="suitably-small.html" title="suitably small"/><link rel="next" href="sun-lounge.html" title="sun lounge"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Sun</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="suitably-small.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sun-lounge.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Sun"/><dt xmlns="" id="Sun"><b>Sun</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was originally an
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acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started out around 1980 with
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some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford talking to some software
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hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept
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married a clever board design based on the Motorola 68000 to
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<a href="../B/BSD.html"><i class="glossterm">BSD</i></a> Unix. Sun went on to lead the workstation
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industry through the 1980s, and for years afterwards remained an
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engineering-driven company and a good place for hackers to work. Though
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Sun drifted away from its techie origins after 1990 and has since made some
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strategic moves that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by
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maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still
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considered within the family in much the same way
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<a href="../D/DEC.html"><i class="glossterm">DEC</i></a> was in the 1970s and early 1980s.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="suitably-small.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="sun-lounge.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">suitably small </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> sun lounge</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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