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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by neilv on Monday May 16, 2022 @10:54PM (#31405556)
In the Sun-3 (Motorola 68K) and early Sun-4 (SPARC) workstations, you got just the monochrome logo. It was nice and tasteful, fitting well alongside a large black-on-white serif console font.

Then the first time you saw an early Sun-4 with CG6 graphics boot, with the full-color 3D image, on that black-on-white console display, it seemed a little out of place, but cool.

The Linux boot logo of the Tux penguin might've been a homage of how Sun did their logo. (And when Linux got symmetric multiprocessing support, a Tux for each CPU/core, IIRC.)

The saddest Unix workstation boot logo was when the nice big elegant Apollo logo shrank, to reflect the company being acquired, and we lost a very noteworthy platform. http://www.planetmulti.de/v2/index.html?http://www.planetmul...

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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by the_only_law on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @08:32AM (#31409550)
I’ve heard some of these had Forth in ROM, which would be fun to play with, but the only type of Sun machines I see in the market are later Sun Stations and I have 0 clue if those have forth as well.
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Re:Collection of Sun Workstation boot logos by lizknope on Tuesday May 17, 2022 @12:39PM (#31413183)
The Sun SPARC machines I used in the 1990's used Open Firmware for booting. It contained a Forth interpreter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Firmware

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