The Sun Technology Papers

by Mark Hall

The Technology of Sun M icrosystems Two years ago, Sun Microsystems began publishing a quarterly tech- nical journal, Sun Technology: The Journal for Sun Users. Since then, its pages have explored in detail diverse technology and products relating to Sun. The journal's technically sophisticated readers are likely to apply the information published in the journal to their work. Sun Technology has been written by technologists for technologists. In...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0387971459
• ISBN13: 9780387971452
• Release Date: December 1989
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 257 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.3" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

A great history lesson on Sun Microsystems

If you are interested in the history of computing, and in Sun Microsystem's contribution to that history in particular, this is an enlightening little book. I picked it up at the time it was fresh off the press 15 years ago, and it is amazing to go back and look at it today. There are articles from the likes of James Gosling, the inventor of the Java programming language, and from Steve Muchnick, expert on compiler design. The book is divided into four parts: software, hardware, networking, and the windows system/user interface. The articles discuss what the brain trust at Sun was thinking about when they designed the SPARC computing architecture and its instruction set. The user interface section shows how Sun was working on the kind of visual interface issues that made Bill Gates rich once his Windows OS more or less stabilized with release 3.1. Even with the first article in the book, "The Open Network Computing Environment", you can see that Sun was working toward the paradigm of the network being the computer. So if you can ever find this old book, browse through it and get an idea of how things began to really ramp up over at Sun Microsystems circa 1990.