[67214] in Cypherpunks
Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lucky Green)
Thu Oct 3 22:06:42 1996
Date: Thu, 3 Oct 1996 18:35:11 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lucky Green <shamrock@netcom.com>
To: Ernest Hua <hua@chromatic.com>
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com, hua@ohio.chromatic.com
In-Reply-To: <199610040001.RAA15595@ohio.chromatic.com>
On Thu, 3 Oct 1996, Ernest Hua wrote:
> Sun Microsystems Inc. said Wednesday it received two contracts from
> NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center worth a total of $100 million. The
> Mountain View-based company said the pact calls for software
> development and the design about 34,000 computer-aided engineering
> and design workstations. NASA will use the workstations to design
> integrated circuits.
34,000 Sun workstations? If any of the software designers from Sun are
reading this, I would like to make a suggestion as to the screensaver
that will ship with every workstation.
--Lucky
