On Thu, Dec 6, 2018 at 4:39 AM Liam Proven via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2018 at 12:44, Tony Duell <ard.p850...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > I don't think anyone is questioning that it's a workstation, and that it > was > > made by Sun. > > > > I think the problem is over 'first' and that a Sun-2 is not going to be > the > > 'first' model. > > Ah! Excellent point. I have to admit, I was totally unfamiliar with > the very early Sun products. I was happy with my little ZX Spectrum > back then, and being about 14, wasn't paying much attention to the > world of academic Unix usage. :-) > > Looking up the SUN-1, I see that it lacked a graphics adapter, and was > a text-only machine. I didn't know that. That alone means that it's > not really what I think of when I think of a Sun workstation: no > windowing system means that for me it's not really a workstation. > The Sun-1 absolutely had a framebuffer and a display and was not a text-only machine, it did 1024x800 at 1bpp, had a mouse, the whole deal. See the picture in this article, for example: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Sun-Microsystems-Inc - Josh
