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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.”
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Jul 12, 2012 · Andy Bechtolsheim talks about innovation and Stanford's role in his life. 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.
Feb 26, 2007 · Sun Microsystems is still around. But what about the four men who gave it life? InfoWorld went on the hunt for Sun's founding fathers: Andy Bechtolsheim, Vinod Khosla, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy.
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.
Jun 26, 2007 · June 26, 2007. Twenty-six years ago as a Stanford University graduate student and a co-founder of Sun Microsystems, Andreas Bechtolsheim designed a simple but powerful personal computer...
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.
After a quarter-century, all four of Sun's founders are still involved in technology -- in one aspect or another.
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.
