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@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

#sunmicrosystems #neverforget

@Gammitin

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.

#SunMicrosystems

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.

#UNIX #SUNMicrosystems #SUN #Solaris

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

A top down view of a partially disassembled SUN SPARCstation 330 computer.

A close-up of a circuit board with multiple chips and other electronic components. The inside of the SUN SPARCstation 330.

The inside of a SUN SPARCstation 330 from the side showing an open drive bay and the power supply.

Officially brought a #SPARC server back to life in my living room.

#Sun #sunmicrosystems

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.

TIL why Sun Microsystems (Bill Joy and all) bought an office suite company in 1999. 🤨

"In August 1999, Star Division was acquired by Sun Microsystems[81][82] for US$59.5 million (equivalent to US$112 million in 2024), reportedly because the acquisition was less expensive than licensing Microsoft Office for Sun's 42,000 employees.[83][84]"

😄

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LibreOffice#History

And that's how eventually LibreOffice became available for many. 😇

#SunMicrosystems #staroffice #openoffice #libreoffice

This (somewhat early) Christmas I just got from my partner a brand new, still sealed, Sun Ray 2. Basically the best gift I ever got. Period.

Then I decided to reverse-engineer it without looking for what people have already done.

Tickling a Sun Ray 2 - DHCP Discovery
https://vito.io/articles/2025-12-13-tickling-sun-ray-discovery

Tickling a Sun Ray 2 - It Speaks!
https://vito.io/articles/2025-12-15-tickling-sun-ray-it-speaks

#sun #sunmicrosystems #retrocomputing

OTD 1968: The Mother of All Demos, by Douglas Engelbart and William English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJDv-zdhzMY

I knew Bill English 20 years later when he was working for #SunMicrosystems.

@stefano So, what vendors are left that we can choose from (until they take the same path)?

This reminds me of #SunMicrosystems and #Cisco back in the dot.com days. While Cisco is still around, it isn't as huge as it once was. And we all know what happened to Sun. Micron/Crucial may suffer the same fate when the bubble goes "POP!"

Exactly 30 years ago today, Netscape and Sun announced JavaScript.

Originally called LiveScript, the language was renamed to JavaScript, ensuring that everyone in the industry would be thoroughly confused about its relation to Java for the next three decades.

A decision made by the marketing guys, of course, since Java was hot at the time and Sun was on board.

The original announcement: https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html

#javascript #netscape #sunmicrosystems #java

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet https://arstechni.ca/AF5s #softwaredevelopment #Sunmicrosystems #talesoftechlore #browserhistory #webdevelopment #brendaneich #Programming #techhistory #ECMAScript #JavaScript #typescript #retrotech #trademark #Netscape #techlore #BillJoy #Node.js #oracle #Tech #1995

@paco SunOS 4.0.3 was my start!

#nostalgia #sunmicrosystems

Reminds me of the E10K.

BBC News - Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e9d13x2z7o

#sunmicrosystems #sparc #starfire

For about 4 years I’ve had a saved search in the local classifieds app for a Sun Ultra 27 and today I was out and about and got an alert one was for sale. My jaw dropped when I saw it was in perfect condition and about 10 mins away from home. I bought it instantly! I’ll get it as soon as I’m back in Copenhagen! So excited!
Since my Ultra 24 already got modern guts, maybe I’ll leave this one stock and it can be a retro workstation.
#SunMicrosystems #Suntember