A fascinating look back at 1994: Bud Tribble explaining the pivotal alliance between NeXT and Sun Microsystems.
It’s incredible to read how OpenStep was pitched as the "mature" object-oriented solution back then—laying the groundwork for the architecture we still use today in macOS. Real engineering history.
#RetroComputing #NeXTSTEP #SunMicrosystems #TechHistory #Unix #OpenStep #Apple
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Hey @prahou, look what I found. It’s like finding ancient Roman coins around an archaeological dig site.
Nice theme. This is Sun Java Desktop System 2003 :p
#SunJDS #JavaDesktop2003 #GNOME #SunMicrosystems #VintageLinux #Linux
@marma I stand corrected... The slogan originated with eventual Oracle acquisition #SunMicrosystems employee John Gage way back in the 1980s.
When Sun and #Oracle collaborated on the Network Computer initiative the following decade they trotted out that slogan and both McNealy and Ellison made a big deal of the concept.
It underscores how early and how hard Big Tech has been trying to put the Personal Computing Genie back in the bottle. It is an effort that must be resisted equally hard to preserve personal computing.
@msh That is like saying Sauron coined the phrase "You shall not pass". I don't know if you are intentionally trolling/farming, but I am triggered :)
Other than that: yes
Nice. This used the #CDE desktop, based on #Motif. I did prefer the earlier #OpenWindows / #OpenLook, though. Partially because I was involved in the development of that.
A 1985 Computer Chronicles segment about the brand new company SUN Microsystems.
Featuring Bill Joy, the segment goes on to express doubts that UNIX will ever catch on in the business world.
"UNIX will be important if it can deliver applications that people want to run."
Nothing he says is wrong, but in 1985 I can only imagine what it felt like.
Cleaning and restoring this SUN SPARCstation 330 from 1989. They built these things like vaults. It’s perfectly clean on the inside but hasn’t been powered on in 30 years.
#unix_surrealism #SUNmicrosystems #UNIX #SunOS #Solaris #SPARC
Officially brought a #SPARC server back to life in my living room.
RE: https://todon.eu/@regendans/115741381135313845
I was a #SunMicrosystems employee when this happened. I remember being pleased about it, and its implicit poke in MSFT's eye. I had NO IDEA until today it was literally cheaper than MSFT's licensing. I mean if I thought about it maybe it would've been obvious? Hell maybe it was and I just wasn't paying attention. To be fair, IKE bringup and shoring up other IPsec, and other TCP/IP things (code reviews, etc.) was work/job-encompassing for me at that point.
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