Sun Microsystems Employee #8: A Founding Story
2025-04-30
This article recounts the author's experience joining Sun Microsystems, a tiny startup, 40 years ago. The author's journey from Amdahl, driven by interest in UNIX and the Motorola 68000, led to encounters with Sun's founding team. His background in UNIX and workstations, combined with his brothers' connections at Xerox, secured his position as an early core member. He contributed to the development of the Sun-1 and porting BSD UNIX, witnessing Sun's meteoric rise.
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