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Sun SPARCstation 2

Producer: SUN - Category: Personal Computer

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Photo 1: Elizabeth K. Joseph, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (Sun SparcStation 2 (1) edit.jpg)

Workstation, 1990, Sun Microsystems. The SPARCstation 2 is the pizza-box workstation with which Sun dominated the Unix market of the early 1990s: a 40 MHz SPARC processor in a flat desktop case with SBus expansion slots, up to 64 MB of memory, SCSI disks and Ethernet, running SunOS 4 and later Solaris 2. Over half a million were sold and it was, for years, the reference machine of universities and software houses.

Years1990 to 1992
ProcessorCypress CY7C601 SPARC at 40 MHz with Weitek 3172 FPU
RAM16 to 64 MB (128 MB with third-party modules)
GraphicsSBus framebuffers, from monochrome to 24-bit colour
Storageinternal SCSI hard disks of 207 or 424 MB, 3.5" floppy drive
Operating systemSunOS 4.1, Solaris 2
Ports3 SBus slots, SCSI, Ethernet, 2 serial, audio
Price (1990)from US$14,995

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