[TUHS] SUN (Stanford University Network) was PC Unix

Jon Steinhart jon at fourwinds.com
Fri Apr 9 16:13:26 AEST 2021


Jason Stevens writes:
> Is there any solid info on the Stanford SUN boards?  I just know the SUN-1
> was based around them, but they aren't the same thing?  And apparently cisco
> used them as well but 'borrowed' someone's RTOS design as the basis for IOS?
> There was some lawsuit and Stanford got cisco network gear for years for
> free but they couldn't take stock for some reason?
>
> I see more and more of these CP/M SBC's on ebay/online and it seems odd that
> there is no 'DIY' SUN boards... Or were they not all that open, hence why
> they kind of disappeared? 

I don't know if Tom Duff was at Lucasfilm at that time but if we was he
would likely know.

Jon


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