Did Sun get a sweetheart deal?

snow snow at smoke.suba.com
Fri Oct 4 01:42:45 PDT 1996


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 at suba.com <prefered for any non-list stuff>
snow at smoke.suba.com






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