Sun-2

Computer Sun Microsystems Sun 2Sun 2/120 server with SMD disk towerDeveloperSun MicrosystemsTypeWorkstationReleasedNovember 1983; 42 years ago (November 1983)Introductory price2/120: US$29,300 (equivalent to $71,000 in 2024) 2/160: US$48,800 (equivalent to $118,000 in 2024) 2/170: US$79,500 (equivalent to $192,000 in 2024)CPUMotorola 68010PredecessorSun-1SuccessorSun-3 The Sun-2 series of UNIX workstations and servers was launched by Sun Microsystems in November 1983. As the name suggests, the Sun-2 represented the second generation of Sun systems, superseding the original Sun-1 series. The Sun-2 series used a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 microprocessor with a proprietary Sun-2 Memory Management Unit (MMU), which enabled it to be the first Sun architecture to run a full virtual memory UNIX implementation, SunOS 1.0, based on 4.1BSD. Early Sun-2 models were based on the Intel Multibus architecture, with later models using VMEbus, which continued to be used in the successor Sun-3 and Sun-4 families. Sun-2 systems were supported in SunOS until version 4.0.3. A port to support Multibus Sun-2 systems in NetBSD was begun in January 2001 from the Sun-3 support in the NetBSD 1.5 release. Code sup