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SPARCstation
The SPARCstation, SPARCserver and SPARCcenter product lines are a series of SPARC-based computer workstations and server (computing), servers in desktop, desk side (pedestal) and rack-based form factor configurations, that were developed and sold by Sun Microsystems. The first SPARCstation was the SPARCstation 1 (also known as the Sun 4/60), introduced in 1989. The series was very popular and introduced the Sun-4c architecture, a variant of the Sun-4 architecture previously introduced in the Sun 4/260. Thanks in part to the delay in the development of more modern processors from Motorola, the SPARCstation series was very successful across the entire industry. The last model bearing the SPARCstation name was the SPARCstation 4. The workstation series was replaced by the Sun Ultra series in 1995; the next Sun server generation was the Sun Enterprise line introduced in 1996. Models Desktop and deskside SPARCstations and SPARCservers of the same model number were essentially ident ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 5
SPARCstation 5 (code-named ''Aurora'') is a workstation made by Sun Microsystems as part of their SPARCstation family. Released on March 29, 1994, the SPARCstation sold for between 3,995 at the low end to US$11,395 at the high end (equivalent to $– in ). Sun positioned the SPARCstation 5 as a low-cost model in the SPARCstation range, set to replace the earlier SPARCclassic from 1992. It is based on the sun4m architecture, and is enclosed in a pizza-box chassis. Sun also offered a SPARCserver 5 without a framebuffer. A simplified version of the SPARCstation 5 was released in February 1995 as the SPARCstation 4. Sun also marketed these same machines under the "Netra" brand, without framebuffers or keyboards and preconfigured with all the requisite software to be used as web servers. It was the fastest-selling Unix workstation up to that point, with 100,000 units selling within nine months of its introduction. Over 400,000 SPARCstation 5s were sold across its entire lifespan. S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 4
SPARCstation 5 (code-named ''Aurora'') is a workstation made by Sun Microsystems as part of their SPARCstation family. Released on March 29, 1994, the SPARCstation sold for between 3,995 at the low end to US$11,395 at the high end (equivalent to $– in ). Sun positioned the SPARCstation 5 as a low-cost model in the SPARCstation range, set to replace the earlier SPARCclassic from 1992. It is based on the sun4m architecture, and is enclosed in a pizza-box chassis. Sun also offered a SPARCserver 5 without a framebuffer. A simplified version of the SPARCstation 5 was released in February 1995 as the SPARCstation 4. Sun also marketed these same machines under the "Netra" brand, without framebuffers or keyboards and preconfigured with all the requisite software to be used as web servers. It was the fastest-selling Unix workstation up to that point, with 100,000 units selling within nine months of its introduction. Over 400,000 SPARCstation 5s were sold across its entire lifespan. Sun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 20
The SPARCstation 20 (code-named ''Kodiak'') is a workstation made by Sun Microsystems. The SPARCstation 20 was released on March 29, 1994, alongside the lower-end SPARCstation 5. The SPARCstation 20 shipped with dual SuperSPARC or hyperSPARC CPUs, supporting up to four such CPUs all Symmetric multiprocessing, running in parallel. It sold for between 12,195 at the low end to US$29,995 at the high end (equivalent to $– in ). Sun superseded the SPARCstation line in November 1995 with the Sun Ultra, Ultra series, which featured UltraSPARC processors. Specifications CPU support The SPARCstation 20 has dual 50 MHz MBus (SPARC), MBus ports that allow it to use faster CPUs than the SPARCstation 10. With two dual-CPU modules and updated firmware, the SPARCstation 20 supports a maximum of four CPUs. The fastest CPU produced for the SPARCstation 20 is the 200 MHz Ross Technology, Ross hyperSPARC. The Programmable read-only memory, PROM in the SPARCstation 20 determines CPU co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 1
The SPARCstation 1 (Sun 4/60, code-named ''Campus'') is the first of the SPARCstation series of SPARC-based workstations sold by Sun Microsystems. The design originated in 1987 by a Sun spin-off company, UniSun, which was soon re-acquired. The SPARCstation 1 has a distinctive slim enclosure (a square 3-inch-high " pizza box") and was first announced in April 1989; the first units shipped in July that year. Based on an LSI Logic RISC CPU running at 20 MHz, with a Weitek 3170 (or 3172) FPU coprocessor, it was the fourth Sun computer (after the 4/260, 4/110 and 4/280) to use the SPARC architecture and the first of the sun4c architecture. The motherboard has three SBus slots, built-in AUI Ethernet, 8 kHz audio, and a 5 MB/s SCSI-1 bus. The basic display runs at in 256 colours, and monitors shipped with the computer were 16 to 19 inch greyscale or colour. Sun released the SPARCstation 1+, an upgrade to the SPARCstation 1 which increased the clock speed of the CPU t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 10
The SPARCstation 10 (codenamed ''Campus-2'') is a workstation computer made by Sun Microsystems. Announced on May 19, 1992, the SPARCstation sold for between 18,495 at the low end to US$57,995 at the high end (equivalent to $– in ). Housed in pizza-box form factor, pizza-box case, the SPARCstation 10 was the first desktop computer capable of symmetric multiprocessing from the factory. Sun later replaced it with the SPARCstation 20. The 40-MHz SPARCstation 10 without external cache was the reference for the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation, SPEC CPU95 benchmark. Sales Volume production commenced on September 1992. By the end of December 1992, the company had shipped over 19,000 SPARCstation 10s, across all models. In 1993, Sun shipped an additional 80,000 units. Between it and its successor the SPARCstation 20, Sun had sold a combined 250,000 units by February 1995. Specifications CPU support The SPARCstation 10 (SS10) contains two MBus (SPARC), MBus slots running ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SPARCstation 2
The SPARCstation 2 (Sun 4/75, code-named ''Calvin'') is a SPARC-based workstation computer sold by Sun Microsystems as part of their SPARCstation family. Sun introduced it on November 5, 1990, for between 14,995 at the low end to US$49,995 at the high end (equivalent to $– in ). Based on the sun4c architecture, the SPARCstation 2 features a 40-MHz SPARC processor. Like its predecessor the SPARCstation 1+, it is housed in a pizza-box case. The SPARCstation 2 was a smash success, Sun selling over 540,000 units by mid-1992. Sales Sun released the SPARCstation 2 on November 5, 1990, to very high demand, and by the end of January 1991, the company had sold 9,000 units. It was the best-selling workstation of 1991, a year which saw the total amount of workstation shipments backslide somewhat compared to 1990. By June 1992, by which point Sun had introduced its successor the SPARCstation 10, Sun had sold at least 540,000 units of the SPARCstation 2. The SPARCstation 2 accounted for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun-4
Sun-4 is a series of Unix workstations and servers produced by Sun Microsystems, first appearing in July 1987, with the launch of the Sun 4/260. The original Sun-4 series were VMEbus-based systems similar to the earlier Sun-3 series, but employing microprocessors based on Sun's own SPARC V7 RISC architecture in place of the 68k family processors of previous Sun models. Sun 4/280 was a base system used for building an early RAID prototype. Models Models are listed in approximately chronological order. : In 1989, Sun dropped the "Sun-4" name for marketing purposes in favor of the SPARCstation and SPARCserver brands for new models, although early SPARCstation/server models were also assigned Sun-4-series model numbers. For example, the SPARCstation 1 was also known as the Sun 4/60. This practice was phased out with the introduction of the SPARCserver 600MP series in 1991. The term ''Sun-4'' continued to be used in an engineering context to identify the basic hardware archi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems, Inc., often known as Sun for short, was an American technology company that existed from 1982 to 2010 which developed and sold computers, computer components, software, and information technology services. Sun contributed significantly to the evolution of several key computing technologies, among them Unix, Reduced instruction set computer, RISC processors, thin client computing, and virtualization, virtualized computing. At its height, the Sun headquarters were in Santa Clara, California (part of Silicon Valley), on the former west campus of the Agnews Developmental Center. Sun products included computer servers and workstations built on its own Reduced instruction set computer, RISC-based SPARC processor architecture, as well as on x86-based AMD Opteron and Intel Xeon processors. Sun also developed its own computer storage, storage systems and a suite of software products, including the Unix-based SunOS and later Solaris operating system, Solaris operating s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pizza Box Form Factor
In computing, a pizza box is a style of case design for desktop computers or network switches. Pizza box cases tend to be wide and flat, normally in height, resembling pizza delivery boxes and thus the name. This is in contrast to a tower system, whose case height is much greater than the width and has an "upright" appearance. In modern usage, the term "pizza box" is normally reserved for very flat cases with height no more than , while those taller than 2 inches are referred to as ''desktop'' cases instead. The common setup of a pizza box system is to have the display monitor placed directly on top of the case, which serves as a podium to elevate the monitor more towards the user's eye level, and to have other peripherals placed in front and alongside the case. Occasionally, the pizza box may be laid on its sides in a tower-like orientation. History With the tagline "Who just fit mainframe power in a pizza box?" in a 1991 advertisement for its Aviion Unix server product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TurboSPARC
The TurboSPARC is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC V8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc. (FMI), the United States subsidiary of the Japanese multinational information technology equipment and services company Fujitsu Limited located in San Jose, California. It was a low-end microprocessor primarily developed as an upgrade for the Sun Microsystems microSPARC-II-based SPARCstation 5 workstation. It was introduced on 30 September 1996, with a 170 MHz version priced at US$499 in quantities of 1,000. Fujitsu Microelectronics, Inc., ''Fujitsu Microelectronics' New TurboSPARC Processor Sets New Performance Level For Low-End, Mid-Range Workstations''. The TurboSPARC was mostly succeeded in the low-end SPARC market by the UltraSPARC IIi in late 1997, but remained available. Users of the TurboSPARC were Force Computers, Fujitsu, RDI Computer, Opus Systems, Tadpole Technologies, Tatung Science and Technology and Themis Computers. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
