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.)
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.
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...