[rescue] Sun2/120 SunOS 3.2 suntools movie (was: advise on Sun2 disk install)
Fred Cisin
cisin at xenosoft.com
Thu Dec 6 14:57:22 CST 2018
> Itâs a Sun-2 so itâs not really arguable whether itâs the first
> ever Sun workstation: Itâs not.
Definitions tend to be RIGID, but completely arbitrary.
"MEGAPIXEL" is nice, but enough to EXCLUDE 1024 x 800 ?
"First": The author is unaware of anything prior, or all prior instances
were in some way uninteresting and unacceptable for the author's use. eg.
"Apple2 was the first personal computer", "first book typed on a word
processor", etc.
"Workstation": Any location where an oppressed worker is compelled to
toil.
"Multimedia": Two or more Kodak Carousel projectors with a soundtrack.
(college "DEFINITION", not "example"!, from half a century ago)
One day, our otherwise very dignified department chair came running into
the student computer lab (3 dozen 386SX generic PCs), yelling "We're
getting SUNS! We're getting SUNS! The loading dock just told me that
there are three big boxes labelled 'Multimedia Workstation'!". Later that
day, two of the three boxes arrived (the third had been pilfered by an
administrator). They were fancy wheeled computer desks for the demo
machines in our classrooms, to replace the vintage 5150 rolling
standup presentation carts that had been the right height (projector
should be taller than desk) and lockable.
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