Among these competitors were Sun Microsystems (which based their initial enormous success on their original similar SUN-based workstation), HP, Apollo, Ithaca Intersystems and Wicat.
William Yeager wrote the software, which was later adopted and evolved by Cisco Systems on its version of the hardware.
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Andy Bechtolsheim, a Stanford graduate student at the time, designed a SUN workstation for use on the network in 1980.
The Sun 1 workstation was based on the Stanford University SUN workstation designed by Andy Bechtolsheim (advised by Vaughan Pratt and Forrest Baskett), a graduate student and co-founder of Sun Microsystems.
A later version of HyperTIES for the Sun workstation was developed using the NeWS window system, with an authoring tool based on UniPress's Gosling Emacs text editor.