Programmeerimiskeel
1982
Sun Microsystems founded: most influential workstation company so far
Mitch Kapor developed Lotus 1-2-3, writing the software directly into the video system of
the IBM PC.
The use of computer-generated graphics in movies took a step forward with Disney's release
of "Tron“.
SUN Microsystems
Sun Microsystems is founded. "SUN" originally stood for Stanford University Network.
Motto “Network is the computer”.
Four employees. Khosla, McNealy, Joy, Bechtolsheim.
First workstation introduced. It includes TCP/IP, now known as the Internet protocol suite
(NOT invented by Sun)
The SUN-2 features a Motorola 68010 processor and uses a Multibus. This one has 4MB of
memory installed and a 400MB Fujitsu M2351 Eagle disk.
The SUN-2 can be used diskless when booted from a server. In 1982 the Network File
System (NFS) was a new invention by Sun.