< company > One of the first, and now biggest, US computer manufacturers. They also manufacture in Europe. The Sun-2 and 3 series of workstations and servers were based on the Motorola 680x0 family of microprocessors and the Sun-4 series on the SPARC . Sun also produce their own version of Unix , originally called SunOS and now Solaris . Their Network File System has become the de facto standard for sharing files between Unix systems.
Quarterly sales $1403M, profits $78M (Aug 1994).
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Address: 2550 Garcia Ave., Mt. View, CA 94043 -1100 USA.
(1995-10-14)