[67229] in Cypherpunks
Re: Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (snow)
Fri Oct 4 02:42:03 1996
From: snow <snow@smoke.suba.com>
To: shamrock@netcom.com (Lucky Green)
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 00:12:55 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.9610031804.A16004-0100000@netcom14> from "Lucky Green" at Oct 3, 96 06:35:11 pm
Mr. Green wrote:
> 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.
Would that bring the crack down to under a month?
Petro, Christopher C.
petro@suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow@smoke.suba.com
