[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
These are all products of military R&D that has migrated into the commercial sector. Silicon Valley was built on Department of Defense and DARPA money; shit, huge sums still run through there (though not nearly as much as during the Cold War days).[/quote]
And Sun Microsystems, Silicon Graphics, Cisco(ArpaNet->present day internet), Oracle(DOD is, maybe now was, one of the largest users of databases. It may still be the one with the largest DB), Cray..
And then there are other companies outside of Silicon Valley like DEC, National Semi, Fairchild, Motorola and Intel.
