I'm gonna resummarize here as there are some links that were mentioned that I feel others may find of interest. My thanks to all that responded. I promise not to ask such an easy one next time (unless I need to ;-) ). Jesse Trucks and Doug Winter: http://wesley.stanford.edu/computer_history/sunet.htm Paul Keller: http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/media/ceo/mgt_mcnealy.html kboykin: http://www.brandbuilding.com/best/profiles.html John Martinez: http://svdaily.com/sun.html The most suscinct answer was given by Brian Dunbar: Stanford University Network(s) IIRC, it's as much an acronym as BMW. It's what it DID stand for, but no one uses it, really, anymore. ~brian =G= Galen Johnson wrote: > Hi Gang, > > I was asked a question today that I was completely unable to > answer...What (if anything) is SUN an acronym for? I (shamefacedly) > had to admit I had no idea. Does anyone know? I can't find it in the > Sun corporate site, yet, either. > > I will summarize so no other Sun admin has to face this shame. > > =G= > _______________________________________________ > sunmanagers mailing list > sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org > http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagersReceived on Wed Aug 28 12:43:52 2002
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