Sun n.
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name
was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun
started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from
Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC
Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a clever board
design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on
to lead the worstation industry through the 1980s, and for years
afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a good place
for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its techie
origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that
disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining
proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still
considered within the family in much the same way DEC was
in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name
was originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun
started out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from
Stanford talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC
Berkeley; Sun's original technology concept married a clever board
design based on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun went on
to lead the worstation industry through the 1980s, and for years
afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a good place
for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its techie
origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves that
disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by maintaining
proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux), it's still
considered within the family in much the same way DEC was
in the 1970s and early 1980s.
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The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC
-
the second proprietary OS for the PDP-10 -- preferred... - NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym;
the `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken... - NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n.
[acronym;
the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in... - Java
An object-oriented language originally developed at
Sun by James Gosling (and known by the name "Oak") with the
intention of being the successor to C++ (the project was
however originally sold to Sun as an embedded language for use in
set-top boxes).
After the great Internet explosion of 1993-1994, ... - Mars n.
A legendary tragic failure, the archetypal Hacker
Dream Gone Wrong.
Mars was the code name for a family of PDP-10 compatible... - Internet n.
The mother of all networks. First
incarnated beginning in 1969 as the ARPANET,
a U.S. Department of Defense research testbed. ... - Amiga n
A series of personal computer models originally
sold by Commodore,
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Synonym for {hacker}. It is reported that at Sun... - Slowlaris /slo'-lahr-is/ n.
[Usenet; poss. from the
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The variant `Slowlartus' is also common, related...
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See feep... - check n.
A hardware-detected error condition, most commonly
used to refer to actual hardware failures rather than
software-induced traps.
E.g., a `parity check' is the result of a... - Python /pi:'thon/
In the words of its author, "the other
scripting language" (other than Perl,
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VM/ officially supports a whole bestiary of virtual...
