[Info-vax] Nomenclature, pt. 2 [was Re: VMS survivability]

Arne Vajhøj arne at vajhoej.dk
Tue Feb 21 14:50:06 EST 2023


On 2/20/2023 7:33 PM, Rich Alderson wrote:
> cross at spitfire.i.gajendra.net (Dan Cross) writes:
>> In article <tsu14t$g5l7$1 at dont-email.me>,
>> Arne Vajhøj  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
> 
>>> And then there is the vendor independence. With Linux you
>>> were not tied to SUN/IBM/HP/DEC. Some companies liked that.
>     
>> "Sun" not "SUN"
> 
> The first product from Sun Microsystems was built around the SUN-1 processor
> board, in which "SUN" was an acronym for "Stanford University Network".

My use of "SUN" instead of "Sun" was just a mistake though.

:-)

Arne




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