Sun Microsystems
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| Former type | Corporation |
|---|---|
| Industry | Computers (hardware and software) |
| Founded | February 24, 1982 |
| Founder(s) |
Vinod Khosla Andy Bechtolsheim Bill Joy Scott McNealy |
| Defunct | 2010 |
| Headquarters | Santa Clara, California, USA |
Sun Microsystems was once a giant in the computing world. It produced and sold both computer hardware and software. It is known mostly for its line of workstations and for introducing the Java programming language.
The company was founded in 1982 by students at Stanford University in California, USA. "Sun" is short for "Stanford University Network" for which its first product —the workstation Sun 1— was intended. Sun was purchased by Oracle on April 20th, 2009 and was officially defunct on January 27th 2010.
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Sun keyboards
In its prime, Sun manufactured workstations. The most famous line was SparcStation that had Sun's processor design SPARC and ran one of Sun's Unix operating systems: SunOS' and later Solaris.
Most keyboards for Sun workstations were high-quality rubber dome keyboards made by Fujitsu.
Keyboard protocol
Early keyboards talked one of Sun's proprietary protocols. The latest keyboards talked USB.
Keyboard layout
In Sun's own layout:
- The backspace key was right above a horizontal enter key.
- The control key was to the left of 'A' (on a QWERTY keyboard), and the caps lock key was on the spacebar row below the left Shift key.
- The space bar row had a meta key and a compose key.
Some keyboards, such as the Sun Type 5, were available in variants for both the Sun layout and in a more IBM-like layout.
Several keyboards had named function keys to the left of the main region: "Cut", "Copy", "Paste", "Props" (properties), etc.
The Sun layout inspired much of the layout of the Happy Hacking Keyboard Professional.
List of keyboards
- Sun Type 3: Oak Full-Travel Membrane.[1]
- Sun Type 4: tactile Key Tronic foam and foil.[2]
- Sun Type 5: standard Fujitsu internals. High-quality keycaps. Often named the most beautiful keyboard in the world.[Citation needed]
- Sun Type 6: standard Fujitsu design in Sun's layout.
- Sun Type 7: standard Fujitsu design in Sun's layout.
See also Sun keyboards.
See also
- Fujitsu, who made most of Sun's keyboards.
- Sun keyboards
References
- ↑ ちゃたりたいね — Sun Type 3 OAKスプリング (Japanese) (Wayback Machine) Posted 2013-10-14. Archived 2015-11-30.
- ↑ ちゃたりたいね — Sun Type 4 KeyTronic静電容量 (Japanese) (Wayback Machine) Posted 2013-09-24. Archived 2015-11-30.
External links
- Sun Microsystems on Wikipedia
