Groklaw: The Daemon, the GNU and the Penguin – Ch. 10

“The company we think of as Sun Microsystems began with Andreas
Bechtolsheim and some other graduate students at Stanford emulating
Motorola’s 68000 CPU cheaply. Stanford licensed a single board: the
Stanford University Network board — SUN.

“Soon companies began licensing the board: Codata, Fortune,
Dual, Cyb, Lucasfilm, and others. Machines began appearing. Each
was ‘just another workstation’ — JAWS.

“The first UNIX workstation had been the Z8000 ONYX, hardly a
VAX on a chip. John Bass demo-ed it at the USENIX Conference in
Boulder, CO, 29 January to 1 February 1980…”

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