VCF Nerd Trivia Challenge Questions & Answers

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Sun Oct 4 04:06:07 1998

Ward Donald Griffiths III <gram_at_cnct.com> wrote:
> > The Sun company name is derived from
> > this college acronym.
> >
> > Stanford University Network
>
> Is this from Bill Joy? Is he trying to make sure that
> somebody else can be blaimed? Why would a bunch of guys
> who'd been doing too much drugs at Berkley (it's obvious
> when you look at NIS) name their company after Stanford?
> Hell, even guys from Stanford don't name their companies
> after the school -- the closest I can think is Cromemco,
> founded by 3? guys who hung out in the Crowder Memorial
> building, I think it was a dormitory when they were there.

The computer was designed at Stanford, and the name "Stanford University
Network" came about long before they decided to commercialize it.

They started with BSD 4.1, and each version of SunOS was an improvement
over its successor.
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 04:06:07 BST