SUN Microsystems. Stanford University Network. Co-founded by a german named Hauser, which studied at Stanford. There he (with some fellow students) built some UNIX workstations, running BSD, so they could procede in their computer science courses. Those machines proved to be rather powerful, so they created a Spin-Off and named it... SUN!
Nowadays, with Intel swallowing Alpha, SUN is about the only manufaturer of an alternative, high-powered CPU.

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