Sun Microsystems, Inc.
<company> One of the first, and now biggest, US computer manufacturers.
They also manufacture in Europe.
The Sun-2 and 3 series of workstations and
servers were based on the
Motorola 680x0 family of microprocessors and the Sun-4 series on the
SPARC.
Sun also produce their own version of
Unix, originally called
SunOS and now
Solaris.
Their
Network File System has become the
de facto standard for sharing files between Unix systems.
Quarterly sales $1403M, profits $78M (Aug 1994).
Home (http://www.sun.com/).
Sun World Online (http://www.sun.com/sunworldonline/).
Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA.
