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Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by kazinator »

zeruch wrote: post #2

Oh, the nostalgia...(disclosure: worked at Sun in the mid 90s)

I had a Sun SparcStation 20 in the mid 90's at work. I was some discarded equipment that nobody was using, that was just laying in a corner somewhere.

I put Red Hat Linux 2.0 on it from a CD-ROM.

I put a TFTP server on it, and used it as the server for booting an NCD X/Window terminal. Also something nobody gave a shit about.

I had GIMP running on it; at some point, people gathered around the cube to see that.

Being young, I was too much of an idiot to just take that gear home. It probably ended up in some dumpster somewhere when Nortel folded, long after I was gone.

On that same job, I also ported Quake to a HP-715 (PA-RISC arch). The frame rate wasn't good, but playable.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by zeruch »

kazinator wrote: post #4
zeruch wrote: post #2

Oh, the nostalgia...(disclosure: worked at Sun in the mid 90s)

I had a Sun SparcStation 20 in the mid 90's at work. I was some discarded equipment that nobody was using, that was just laying in a corner somewhere. I put Red Hat Linux 2.0 on it from a CD-ROM. I put a TFTP server on it, and used it as the server for booting an NCD X/Window terminal. Also something nobody gave a shit about. I had GIMP running on it; at some point, people gathered around the cube to see that. Being…

My last Sun box was a Sparc 20 IIRC, and I had that until 2007ish or thereabouts, before I gave it up. Sun is still one of the best companies I ever worked at, and I was there when the E10K and Java was released, really exciting times without a hint of the circus/surreality show the industry has become.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by DonHopkins »

Vaughan Pratt designed the original Sun Microsystems logo, which is an ambigram (and also a swastikoid rotation group):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaughan_Pratt

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambigram

https://www.famouslogos.org/logos/sun-microsystems-logo

It originally had a square orientation:

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jtWyvhXXKw8/WMhYGNM4huI/AAAAAAAAG...

John Gage suggested turning it 45 degrees (making it even more swastikier).

https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TM7J2yqhR1E/WMhYGME0LaI/AAAAAAAAG...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gage

That's the same John Gage who's on Nixon's Enemies List.

https://www.enemieslist.info/enemy.php?ID=463

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by otachack »

zeruch wrote: post #8
kazinator wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I had a Sun SparcStation 20 in the mid 90's at work. I was some discarded equipment that nobody was using, that was just laying in a corner somewhere. I put Red Hat Linux 2.0 on it from a CD-ROM. I put a TFTP server on it, and used it as the server for booting an NCD X/Window terminal. Also something nobody gave a shit about. I had GIMP running on it; at some point, people gathered around the cube to see that. Being…

My last Sun box was a Sparc 20 IIRC, and I had that until 2007ish or thereabouts, before I gave it up. Sun is still one of the best companies I ever worked at, and I was there when the E10K and Java was released, really exciting times without a hint of the circus/surreality show the industry has become.

I'm envious! I was in college when the acquisition happened. I wonder how different the world of computing would be if that buyout didn't occur.
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