Excellent recounting of the history and industry context along with an objectively fair assessment of the probabilities the rumors were true.

I cant for the life of me figure what sun would have been thinking. It had its own 68k line it was phasing out that it have sold as low cost. It had the 386i Intel based systems it could have sold as Low cost and had the sparc machines as the halo.

Must have been something else Sun wanted …