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- The SUN workstation was no PC or Mac, however. It was a true 32-bit machine. “It was a gigantic leap in cost and performance,” said Bechtolsheim. “You could run the same kind of programs as on a larger mini-computer like the [DEC] on this little box that cost $10,000 instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
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Jul 12, 2012 · Andy Bechtolsheim talks about innovation and Stanford's role in his life. The SUN workstation was no PC or Mac, however. It was a true 32-bit machine. “It was a gigantic leap in cost and performance,” said Bechtolsheim.
At Stanford, Bechtolsheim designed a powerful computer (called a workstation) with built-in networking called the SUN workstation, a name derived from the initials for the Stanford University Network. It was inspired by the Xerox Alto computer developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center.
Feb 26, 2007 · Sun Microsystems is still around. But what about the four men who gave it life? InfoWorld went on the hunt for Sun's founding fathers: Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott...
May 28, 2014 · May 28, 2014 7:00 am. Comment. Andy Bechtolsheim, right, along with William Joy, helped co-found Sun Microsystems in 1982. Sun Microsystems. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — As a Stanford University...
Andy Bechtolsheim designed the original SUN (Stanford University Network) workstations using the SAIL (Stsnford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) computer running SUDS (Stanford University Drawing System), which was an interactive graphical design system that had been developed earlier by the Super-Foonly Project, headed by graduate students ...
Andreas Bechtolsheim — Sun Microsystems co-founder. Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim built the path-breaking SUN workstation while working as a doctoral student at Stanford in computer science and electrical engineering. He later became co-founder and chief system architect at Sun Microsystems.
In May 1982 SUN Microsystems announced its first UNIX workstation, the Sun 1. The company had been founded in Santa Clara, California only three months earlier, on February 24, 1982, by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy—students at Stanford who worked on the Stanford University Network.
