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- In negotiations with the newly formed Stanford Technology Licensing group, Andy asked if he could use the SUN workstation technology in the startup without getting a license from Stanford and was asked whether there was anything patentable there. He said there was not, put that in writing, and was allowed to take the technology for free.
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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.
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.
Andy Bechtolsheim designed the original SUN (Stanford University Network) workstations using the SAIL (Stsnford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory) computer running SUDS (Stanford University Drawing System), which was an interactive graphical design system that had been developed earlier by the Super-Foonly Project, headed by graduate students ...
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.
The company had been founded in Santa Clara, California only three months earlier, on February 24, 1982, by Vinod Khosla, Andy Bechtolsheim, Bill Joy, and Scott McNealy—students at Stanford who worked on the Stanford University Network.
May 24, 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.
