
17 Dec
2003
17 Dec
'03
6:17 p.m.
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