Bryan-TheBS-Smith wrote:
>
> Seth wrote:
> > I know a lot of servers at USF run it.
>
> Of course, as does UCF, UF, FSU, etc... SUN originally stood for
> "Standard University Network". The original Internet was almost
> totally Sun-based, and Sun's BSD-based SunOS ruled the campus
> backbone. You'll find Solaris throughout most universities
> everywhere, at least large ones. Most universities run Solaris
> because it is one of the few platforms that can support tens of
> thousands of users. When you have that many users, you cannot have
> "active" networking going on like Novell and Windows.
Actually, it means "Stanford University Network" because the original
"SUN Workstation" was built at Stanford University and so-named because
it was easier to say than "Stanford University Network Workstation."
Then the guys who built the SUN Workstation thought it might be neat to
start selling them commercially, got some money, got in touch with Bill
Joy to write an OS for the machine, and the rest, as they say, is
history.
And the original Internet actually ran primarily on Digital PDP type
machines, since it was originally developed on Digital PDP type
machines. The "IMP" was a famous piece of equipment that was used as
the original test platform for TCP/IP and was built as a peripheral to
Digital PDP 11/70s I believe. Of course, at that time it was called
ARPANET. By the time it was called "the Internet" it ran on all kinds
of platforms. A lot of *servers* are Sun boxes, but most *traffic* goes
across Cisco equipment than any other vendor hardware on the Internet
nowadays.
Also, I seem to recall seeing not only Sun machines, but quite a number
of Digital VAXen and HP and IBM Minis and various flavors of Mainframes
at Uni when I was going to school not more than a few years ago. I'd
hardly say that Sun has or had a stranglehold on university computing
departments any more or less than any other platform, especially today.
If anyone has anything close to a stranglehold on university networks
today, it would have to be Microsoft since just about any computing lab
you walk into on any campus today will be mostly PCs running some flavor
of Windows. (And that includes Stanford...)
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