[Info-vax] Further on the PDP-10 [was Re: Hard links on VMS ODS5 disks]

[gah4]

On Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 7:15:02 PM UTC-7, Rich Alderson wrote:

(snip)

> You have the order backwards, by the way. The 3Mbit PUP network was created to 
> connect the dozen TOPS-20 and TENEX sites around campus, and PUP routing was 
> inserted into the monitors. 
 
Yes, I wasn't trying to order them.

> The SUN ("Stanford University Network") processor board was built for a 
> different project, a 3M desktop system ("1 MIPS, 1MB memory, 1M pixel 
> display"). Only after the Ethernet went in did it become a 4M processor ("and 
> 1MB/sec networking"). 
 
> It became the "Sun-1" only after the engineering grad student who did the 
> detail design based on the high level design from a well known TOPS-20 
> personality took his B-school friend's advice and started a company.
 
So it went from SUN to Sun-1 when they started the company?

I did know some time ago that it was named for Stanford University Network,
though the company didn't advertize that so much.