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- The SUN workstation was no PC or Mac, however. It was a true 32-bit machine. “It was a gigantic leap in cost and performance,” said Bechtolsheim. “You could run the same kind of programs as on a larger mini-computer like the [DEC] on this little box that cost $10,000 instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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Jul 12, 2012 · “Innovation is obviously the essence of high technology and business. In many ways it’s even more important than ever,” said the inventor of the SUN workstation and co-founder of Sun Microsystems at a recent interview at the Stanford University School of Engineering. It is more important, but different, too, he added.
Andy Bechtolsheim, a Stanford graduate student at the time, designed a SUN workstation for use on the network in 1980. It was inspired by the Alto, but used a more modular design powered by a Motorola 68000 processor interfaced to other circuit boards using Multibus. [2]
In May 1982 SUN Microsystems announced its first UNIX workstation, the Sun 1. The company had been founded in Santa Clara, California only three months earlier, on February 24, 1982, by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy—students at Stanford who worked on the Stanford University Network.
Jul 7, 1997 · On the fourth, Andy Bechtolsheim, then a Ph.D. candidate, was building a prototype workstation for the Stanford University Network, or SUN, which would become Sun Microsystems.
Learn about the process of innovation from Stanford's Andreas "Andy" Bechtolsheim, founder of Sun Microsystems and Arista Networks, in a 1-2 hour lecture.
Jul 1, 2013 · It started with a prototype 32-bit “workstation” (as opposed to personal computer) built by Ph.D. student Andy Bechtolsheim, who originally wanted to create a personal computer that would meet the needs of faculty and students on the Stanford campus.
Jan 23, 2020 · Andy Bechtolsheim designed a workstation for the Stanford University Network (SUN) that led to Sun Microsystems. Cisco Systems, Google, Yahoo, and numerous other start-ups also emerged from that ...
