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- The SUN workstation was no PC or Mac, however. It was a true 32-bit machine. “It was a gigantic leap in cost and performance,” said Bechtolsheim. “You could run the same kind of programs as on a larger mini-computer like the [DEC] on this little box that cost $10,000 instead of hundreds of thousands of dollars.”
engineering.stanford.edu/node/8401/printable/printAndy Bechtolsheim: Hero talks innovation, success and engineering
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Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim built the path-breaking SUN workstation while working as a doctoral student at Stanford in computer science and electrical engineering. He later became co-founder and chief system architect at Sun Microsystems.
The initial design for what became Sun's first Unix workstation, the Sun-1, was conceived by Andy Bechtolsheim when he was a graduate student at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California. Bechtolsheim originally designed the SUN workstation for the Stanford University Network communications project as a personal CAD workstation.
Early Sun workstation hardware. At Stanford, Bechtolsheim designed a powerful computer (called a workstation) with built-in networking called the SUN workstation, a name derived from the initials for the Stanford University Network. It was inspired by the Xerox Alto computer developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. Bechtolsheim was a ...
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Andreas von Bechtolsheim was born on September 30th, 1955, near Ammersee, in the German state of Bavaria. He is the second child out of four that was raised on a farm near the Alps. Bechtolsheim had developed an interest in technology and experimented with electronics since his early age. In 1963, Bechtolsheim and his family moved to Rome, Italy an...
While attending Stanford University, Bechtolsheim designed a workstation with built-in networking called the SUN workstation. The workstation that had its name derived from Stanford University Network was built based on the Xerox Alto computer, and developed at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. At that time, Bechtolsheim was working as a consult...
In 1995, Bechtolsheim left Sun Microsystems and founded Granite Systems that focused on developing high-speed network switches. The firm was acquired in 1996 by Cisco Systems acquired for $220 million, with Bechtolsheim owning 60 percent of the share. Bechtolsheim became Vice President and general manager of Cisco's Gigabit Systems Business Unit, u...
Andreas Bechtolsheim that is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, received a Smithsonian Leadership Award for Innovation in 1999 and a Stanford Entrepreneur Company of the year award.
According to Sergey Brin: "We met him [Andy] - on the porch of a Stanford faculty member's home in Palo Alto. We gave him a quick demo. He had to run off somewhere, so he said, instead of us discussing all the details, why don't I just write you a check? It was made out to Google Inc. and was for $100,000." As an entrepreneur, Bechtolsheim is noted...
Jul 12, 2012 · As a graduate student at Stanford, Bechtolsheim invented the workstation, an affordable, high-end computer. He later co-founded Sun Microsystems.
The Sun-1 workstation was based on the Stanford University SUN workstation designed by Andy Bechtolsheim (advised by Vaughan Pratt and Forest Baskett), a graduate student and co-founder of Sun Microsystems. At the heart of this design were the Multibus CPU, memory, and video display cards.
May 23, 2012 · More than 30 years ago as a Stanford graduate student, Andreas “Andy” Bechtolsheim designed a simple but powerful computer workstation that would help define the modern technology era and launch Sun Microsystems.
