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From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: ~8-job "knee" in response curves on Suns (was Re: IBM RS6000)
Message-ID: <1991Jan16.182107.4176@zoo.toronto.edu>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1991Jan10.214122.9506@news.arc.nasa.gov> <amos.663857722@shum> <5257@auspex.auspex.com> <21588@neptune.inf.ethz.ch>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 1991 18:21:07 GMT

In article <21588@neptune.inf.ethz.ch> brandis@inf.ethz.ch (Marc Brandis) writes:
>>("SunOS", not "SUNOS", please; in Sun's name, "Sun" isn't an acronym).
>
>Are you sure that Sun is not an acronym? I remember having heard that SUN 
>comes from "Stanford University Network", a project from which the very first
>Sun machines were derived.

"SUN" and "Sun" are not the same thing.  "SUN" stood for Stanford University
Network, yes... but "Sun" is short for "Sun Microsystems Inc".  While I'm sure
the similarity is not accidental :-), given that Sun Microsystems was formed
basically to commercialize the SUN hardware, the company's name is not an
acronym.
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If the Space Shuttle was the answer,   | Henry Spencer at U of Toronto Zoology
what was the question?                 |  henry@zoo.toronto.edu   utzoo!henry
