SPARCstation

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SPARCstation is a family of UNIX workstations developed by Sun Microsystems in the late 1980s and 1990s, based on the SPARC RISC architecture and widely used in engineering and academic environments.


Statements (48)
Predicate Object
instanceOf computer hardware platform
workstation family
basedOn SPARC architecture
category RISC workstations
Sun workstations
UNIX workstations
countryOfOrigin United States
cpuArchitecture RISC
developer Sun Microsystems
formFactor desktop workstation
lunchbox workstation
pizza box workstation
tower workstation
hardwareArchitecture SPARC V7
SPARC V8
industry computer workstations
launchPeriod 1990s
late 1980s
manufacturer Sun Microsystems
marketedAs UNIX workstation
notableFor early adoption of SPARC RISC architecture
network-centric design
widespread use in universities
notableModel SPARCstation 1
SPARCstation 10
SPARCstation 2
SPARCstation 20
SPARCstation IPC
SPARCstation IPX
SPARCstation LX
SPARCstation Voyager
operatingSystem Solaris
SunOS
platform UNIX
successor Ultra workstation line
supports NFS
TCP/IP networking
X Window System
targetUser engineers
researchers
system administrators
university students
typicalUse networked workstation
usedIn academic environments
engineering
scientific computing
software development
vendor Sun Microsystems

Referenced by (11)
Subject (surface form when different) Predicate
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation 1")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation 2")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation IPC")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation IPX")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation 10")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation 20")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation LX")
SPARCstation ("SPARCstation Voyager")
notableModel
Sun Microsystems
product
The Network Is The Computer ("Sun Microsystems workstations")
relatedTo
SPARC ("Sun SPARCstation workstations")
usedIn

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