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

[Rich Alderson]

Lars Brinkhoff <lars.spam at nocrew.org> writes:

> Rich Alderson wrote:
>> The first product from Sun Microsystems was built around the SUN-1
>> processor board, in which "SUN" was an acronym for "Stanford
>> University Network".

> Perhaps you would know, was the board in Sun Microsystems' first product
> identical to the Stanford SUN workstation board?  Information online is
> often confused between the Stanford SUN and the Sun Microsystems Sun-1,
> so it's hard to say and I keep wondering if in fact they were mostly the
> same.

They were identical.  In fact, the SUN board was used in routers and terminal
interface processors (TIPs) on the Stanford network; these were later built
with SUN-1 boards from Sun Microsystems.

cisco Systems was an early consumer of processor boards from Sun, until the
CSC-2 and CSC-3 boards were developed in-house.

> Another point of nomenclature: I have seen Stanford documents referring
> to the SUN workstation software as "SUNOS", which is uncomfortably close
> to "SunOS"...

I think it's comfortable...

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