worked at sun as well. it was a great place to work but boy were people really spending the cash. the tapeout party for picojava (or maybe it was microjava, can’t remember) kind of ruined everything. i think the whole team went to, well, Java, and that got mcnealy’s attention. that kind of thing never happened again.
now that i’m thinking about it, i think picojava directly executed java bytecodes, which was insane. i thought we learned from symbolics (and RISC/SPARC/MIPS) that this sort of thing was the Wrong Thing To Do ™
oh well, those were the days.
