Sun n.
Sun Microsystems. Hackers remember that the name was
originally an acronym, Stanford University Network. Sun started
out around 1980 with some hardware hackers (mainly) from Stanford
talking to some software hackers (mainly) from UC Berkeley; Sun's
original technology concept married a clever board design based
on the Motorola 68000 to BSD Unix. Sun
went on to lead the worstation industry through the 1980s, and
for years afterwards remained an engineering-driven company and a
good place for hackers to work. Though Sun drifted away from its
techie origins after 1990 and has since made some strategic moves
that disappointed and annoyed many hackers (especially by
maintaining proprietary control of Java and rejecting Linux),
it's still considered within the family in much the same way
DEC was in the 1970s and early
1980s.
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sun lounge n.
[UK] The room where all the Sun workstations live. The humor
in this term comes from the fact that it's also in mainstream use
to describe a solarium, and all those Sun workstations clustered
together give off an amazing amount of heat.