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Regarding Sun's slogan: Supported a VLSI component and software engineering group at Intel in mid 80s built from Moto 68K-based Sun workstations that were provisioned engineering staff in groups of 5, with a diskful server and 4 diskless clients attached via 10Mb thicknet, running Sun's bootp, NFS and Yellow Pages. This was the meaning of "network is the computer" in the context of the Sun salespeople. It gave a VAX-11/780 of CPU performance to each engineer at a time where compute had been provisioned at 10–15 engineers to a 780. And the kit was all on/under desk, not in a special room with AC and a raised floor. The internet was a 2400b leased line to an ARPA IMP and was used only for file transfers with researchers at CMU. External mail and USEnet was UUCP via VAXes.


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