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).
(http://sun.com/). Sun World Online
(http://sun.com/sunworldonline/).
Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA.
(1995-10-14)