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Wed 13 April 2022

Using a Sun Keyboard under Linux

Posted by fedops in Hardware   

I got my start in system administration in the early 1990s, maintaining a university institute full of Sun Microsystems workstations. Those were the late days of the Unix wars, and the main contenders were Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), Hewlett-Packard (HP), IBM, Silicon Graphics Inc. (SGI), and Sun. Sun were well-loved in the Universities - the machines weren't the greatest, neither was their software, but all around they had a reasonable package at a reasonable price.

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