6 Dec
2018
6 Dec
'18
10:55 a.m.
On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:39 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:
On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 12:44, Tony Duell
<ard.p850ug1 at gmail.com> wrote:
The Sun-1 absolutely had a framebuffer and a display and was not a
text-only machine, it did 1024x800 at 1bpp, had a mouse, the whole deal.
See the picture in this article, for example:
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sun-Microsystems-Inc
- Josh
I don't think anyone is questioning that it's a workstation, and that it
was
made by Sun.
I think the problem is over 'first' and that a Sun-2 is not going to be
the
'first' model.
Ah! Excellent point. I have to admit, I was totally unfamiliar with
the very early Sun products. I was happy with my little ZX Spectrum
back then, and being about 14, wasn't paying much attention to the
world of academic Unix usage. :-)
Looking up the SUN-1, I see that it lacked a graphics adapter, and was
a text-only machine. I didn't know that. That alone means that it's
not really what I think of when I think of a Sun workstation: no
windowing system means that for me it's not really a workstation.