User:NapoliRoma/sandbox

x86-64
The earliest beneficiaries of a 64-bit architecture are memory-intensive business applications such as large databases. Because of this, 64-bit processors have become firmly established in the compute server space. However, most existing client applications such as web browsers and productivity software fit within a 32-bit address space.

This is where

The "planets"
In 1991, Sun had reached a size where it was decided that it would be more effective to reorganize into a group of operating companies, collectively dubbed "the planets". Each of these companies, although still part of Sun Microsystems, Inc. would have its own president, operate under its own accounting structure, and by being at a nominal arms-length would be freer to strike deals

Here's a link to the second part of June 1994 Computerworld article (first part missing!) talking about the planets -- how in February 1994 Zander, president of SunSoft, started sucking in other planets, a process that continued in June. SunPics, SunPro, SunConnect, Sun Technology Enterprises (STE) apparently folded into SunSoft. Notes "Sun Microsystems Computer Corp." (probably "Company" by then?) and SunExpress not touched.

https://books.google.com/books?id=x_1p1FQCWXkC&lpg=PA165&dq=sunsoft%20planets%20sun%20express&pg=PA165#v=onepage&q=sunsoft%20planets%20sun%20express&f=false

July 11, 1994: SUNFLASH! (SunSoft Completes Reorganization) [...why did this come out two weeks after the CW article? Defensive? LATER THOUGHT: it may have trailed by even later, since the date on a magazine is usually its "remove by" date]

JavaSoft announced January 9, 1996. Alan Baratz leads.

Microelectronics group reformed under David Yen, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20090308020429/http://www.sun.com/aboutsun/pr/2007-03/sunflash.20070327.2.xml

Model 100 and the ilk todo
Most notable of a genre of non-PC compatible notebook computers originating from a Kyocera design. Bring out early that they're more like PDAs.

Separate evolution from competitor systems:

100 -> 102 -> 200 -> 600 -> 1400 LT which now introduces MS-DOS and is essentially a break from the genre.

Tandy Corporation article mentions Model(s) 1100?

List competitors for each model; establish which came before and which after their RS equivalents.

Edit Z-150. Sounds more like it was from the same supplier as M600. Which came first?

Do the same for other competing models.

There's a GRiD Compass article.

WP-2? WP-3?

HP VUE and Motif
[Rescuing this from an old edit -- this seems like something I might want to add someday]

Ref HP VUE: started with hpwm, then VUE 2.0, then VUE 3.0. 3.0 apparently April 1994; don't know other dates. (hpwm later became mwm -- both could be good lookup targets)

(COSE March 1993, interestingly enough; CDE June 1993)

When did HP submit Motif hpwm to OSF?