OTD 2009: #Oracle buys #SunMicrosystems. Sigh.

www.oracle.com/corpo...

#UNIX panel at upcoming #Princeton reunions.
Featuring some famous people, and me too.

OTD 1989: Control Data shuts down ETA supercomputer subsidiary.

ethw.org/First-Hand:...

OTD 1989: #SunMicrosystems announces the SPARCstation 1, aka Sun 4/60, aka "Campus".
Also first use of SBus.

theretroweb.com/moth...

Launching S3 Files, making S3 buckets accessible as file systems | Amazon Web Services Amazon S3 Files makes S3 buckets accessible as high-performance file systems on AWS compute resources, eliminating the tradeoff between object storage benefits and interactive file capabilities while enabling seamless data sharing with ~1ms latencies.

Amazon announces "S3 Files": aws.amazon.com/blogs...

I guess they didn't get my message that NFS Must Die!
www.youtube.com/watc...

OTD 1982: I get my Sun offer letter.

Happy Mainframe Day!
OTD 1964: IBM announces the System/360 family. 8-bit bytes ftw!

Shown: Operator at console of Princeton's IBM/360 Model 91.

OTD 1969: RFC #1

datatracker.ietf.org...

OTD 1992: 2nd Broadband ISDN Technical Workshop - Miyazaki, Japan.
I had the honor of giving the opening talk.
My first trip to Japan!

OTD 1996 (30 years!) - #IpsilonNetworks takes the best of show award at the Networld+InterOp show.
My career has been pretty much downhill since then. :-)

web.archive.org/web/...
web.archive.org/web/...

Schmidt April Fool Cars 1986 & 2008 In 1986 Sun employees put a VW Bug in his office. 22 years later, his office was too small for a VW Bug, but we found the right car - a CommuterCars Tango - and pulled it off again.

OTD 1986 (40 years!) - #SunMicrosystems "Car in Office" April Fool's Day stunt.
Recreated in 2008 at Google - but they didn't have to move and replace walls.

Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility.

OTD 1951: Census Bureau accepts the first UNIVAC system - with 59% uptime.

dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/...

Meta boosts investment in West Texas AI data center by over sixfold to $10 billion Meta is increasing investment at a data center in El Paso, Texas, to $10 billion from $1.5 billion, as the company ramps up spending on AI infrastructure.

Now Meta has bumped up their $1.5B data center plan on the other side of El Paso to an insane $10B plan.

A Mysterious Company Came to Town With a $165 Billion Idea As wealthier areas are pushing back against huge A.I. data centers, speculators are pitching places like Doña Ana County, N.M., on their vision. Local officials are eager for a deal — even if they don’t quite know the terms.

A.I. buildout bullshit - $165B Project Jupiter outside of my hometown El Paso.

By the way, I know Foxconn pretty well; they were the first investors in DriveScale.
I don't know any of the people mentioned in the book.
The come off in the book as financially and politically opportunistic, but the real blames lies with the politicians and the consultants surrounding them.

Book cover: "Foxconned - Imaginary Jobs, Bulldozed Homes, & the Sacking of Local Government" by Lawrence Tabak.

Good book from 2021 about how the huge public/private infrastructure deals are usually just short term gain for politicians and long term financial pain for the affected communities.

Think about all the BS AI infrastructure deals recently announced.

🕯️manifesting.

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Excellent takedown of the AI data center hype.

Today! 25th anniversary of MacOS X!

No, no, no.
This is the first Think Pad.

My latest talk, from Cloud Field Day 25 - "The Rise and Fall of the Cloud - Again!"

techfieldday.com/app...

#CFD25 #TechFieldDay

OTD 1992: Silicon Graphics announces acquisition of MIPS, Inc.
www.nytimes.com/1992...

OTD 1986: Microsoft goes public. Only 9 days after Sun Microsystems.

OTD 1996 (30 years!): The Nokia 9000 "Communicator" - clamshell smart phone.

Fresh scan: "The UNIX System - a Sun Microsystems Technical Report" (1985)

drive.google.com/fil...

OTD 1989: Tim Berners-Lee proposal for the World WIde Web: www.w3.org/History/1...

He's got a new book out: us.macmillan.com/boo...

I met another Turing award winner last night - Martin Hellman. I've known Whit Diffie since Sun days, so now I know both halves of the public key/private key pair pair. 😉

en.wikipedia.org/wik...

OTD 2013: My final startup, DriveScale, is incorporated.
Technical preso: www.usenix.org/sites...

OTD 1975: First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
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