From: news@alderson.users.panix.com   
      
   cross@spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:   
      
   > [Sun's] initial success was because they built the computer that   
   > they themselves wanted to use, and came up with a computer a   
   > bunch of other people wanted to use, too.  It was a joy to use a   
   > Sun workstation at the time.  But then they stopped doing that.   
      
   Remember that the original SUN-1 board was designed by Andy Bechtolsheim from a   
   specification given to him by Ralph Gorin, director of the Stanford academic   
   computing facility (LOTS), who envisioned a 4M system (1M memory, 1MIPS, 1M   
   pixels on the screen, 1Mbps network, based on the first Ethernet at PARC).   
      
   SUN stood for "Stanford University Network"...   
      
   The same board was used in the original routers and terminal interface   
   processors (TIPs) on the Stanford network, designed by Len Bosack of Cisco and   
   XKL fame.   
      
   Khosla and Bechtolsheim, et al., didn't "build the computer they wanted to   
   use",   
   they built the one they thought would make money when they took the design from   
   Stanford.   
      
   --   
   Rich Alderson					  news@alderson.users.panix.com   
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