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To: Arthur Tang who wrote (64128)	3/23/2007 4:02:59 PM
From: QwikSand	Read Replies (2) of 64865

So, unix market growth is how the telephone industry grow. AT&T never made their own computers and cpus. So, Sunw was born. This has approximately nothing to do with factual history. SUNW started as a workstation company. They initially had nothing to do with AT&T. In fact from their founding in 1982 until 1991 or 1992, Sun exclusively used the Berkeley variant of Unix that AT&T didn't like very much; this variant was largely engineered by Sun founder William Joy. They did get a lot of telecom business in the 90' and did briefly partner with AT&T on prototypes of the version of AT&T Unix that evolved into Solaris, but that all came much later. Sun had ZERO to do with either AT&T or telephone switches when they were "born". Original Unix at AT&T was almost entirely engineered on DEC machines and stayed that way for many years. Sun didn't exist yet. The issue of the Bell Systems Technical Journal (which I have on my shelf) that originally described the already-running Unix was dated July-August 1978. Sun was founded in 1982. --QS

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