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Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by DonHopkins » Wed, May 18, 2022, 3:20 AM UTC

ProtoMathics wrote: post #41

DonHopkins wrote: post #9

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…

Who even has such a word in vocabulary and first thing your mind came up with is ... But hey, maybe youre just salty after googling Sparcbook and realizing how innovative Apple was with Touchbar XD ( which apple killed by using it wrong )

There's only one swastikoid logo more swastikier and cockier than the Sun logo, and that's Slack's infamous Penis Swastika Logo.

https://metro.co.uk/2019/01/17/slack-new-logo-looks-like-pen...

>Slack added: ‘The important thing about being a brand is that whenever people see you in the wild, they should recognize that it’s you.’

>So naturally, it decided to launch a new icon which has now been roundly roasted across the internet and compared to four phalluses arranged in the shape of a symbol that’s forever associated with the Nazi.

>Designer T Carter Baxter tweeted: ‘I know people at Slack and I know they’re smart, capable and caring people. But once you hear “swastika made of dicks” it’s kind of over for the new logo.’

I do respect that Slack stuck to their guns, so to speak.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by qwerty456127 » Wed, May 18, 2022, 12:28 PM UTC

ace2358 wrote: post #38

qwerty456127 wrote: post #33

Were they really all this low-res?

I’d believe it. It’s my understanding that a current iPhone app icon is almost the same resolution as the first Macintosh screen. Crazy times! Have to remember that the old CRT screens took pixelated images and gave the a smooth glowing look.

Well, I thought the logos were sort of splash screens meant to be displayed full-screen. Perhaps the very first Mac did, but I can't believe a Sun workstation would have a 100-pixels display.

Good CRTs indeed make everything look amazing though. E.g. a 240p video can look beautiful on a 19-inch Trinitron.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by ianai » Wed, May 18, 2022, 2:56 PM UTC

ProtoMathics wrote: post #43

0des wrote: post #23

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A subset of us still use plan9, usually in the form of 9front. Every time I think of Plan9, I get a little misty eyed and wistful. I'm just old enough to remembering time sharing systems and mainframes. These days looking at whats called cloud, I'm seeing a lot of the old architecture coming back, loosely speaking. Mobile devices are like the new dumb terminals, the browser is the shell, and the cloud is our mainfram…

NEXTgen hardware virtualization + QUBES OS-like usage of virtualization but made nice looking and frictionless to standard user. Thats the future we get.

Yes and which definitely feels like the OS equivalent of “since you all can’t get along on your own you each will be given your own OS-like namespace and have no direct interaction with one another.”

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by lokedhs » Thu, May 19, 2022, 12:11 AM UTC

NexRebular wrote: post #58

lokedhs wrote: post #15

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Same. I left early 2000's. At one point I wrote a an OpenGL game which ended up on the demo CD that came with the Ultra workstations. It contained a big 3D Sun logo that I created by manually writing the appropriate code in C. It was easy once I figured out that the dimensions of the logo are all very nice even values. The game itself should still be available on one of those discs. Perhaps someone created an image o…

Would that demo be on one the Ultra Pack collections? Archive seems to have the first volume but it seems there were several released. Sadly they are super hard to find even on eBay.

Yes. It definitely wasn't on the first volume. I'm pretty sure of that.

Re: Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos

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Post by mdehling » Sat, May 21, 2022, 4:55 PM UTC

classichasclass wrote: post #56

mdehling wrote: post #55

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Nice collection! I’ve never seen the S3000 in person, but from the photos I’ve seen it looks amazing. Love the orange plasma on my IBM PS/2 P70/P75! Any chance you might be willing to help out by sending me some firmware or logo data? For the little B&W logos it could be as simple as typing “sun-logo 200 dump” at the ok prompt.

Let me see what I can do this weekend. The Sol PROM is more limited but I may be able to make it cough up something.

Email me if you like (username at gmail) - would be nice if we could make this work!