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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedClone hits workstation market: Solbourne computers use Sparc and run Sun 4 software. (Solbourne Computer Inc.'s Series4) (product announcement)
EDN, January, 1989 by Rooney, Paula
Clone hits workstation market LONGMONT, CO--Solburne Computer's introduction this month of its Sun 4-compatible workstation will do for engineers what personal-computer clones did for businesses: drive down prices and increase the availability and performance of hardware and software, say industry analysts.
Solbourne's Series4 workstations, introduced January 16, are the first to be software compatible with those of another vendor, the Sun 4 model from Sun Microsystems (Mountain View, CA). The Series4 machines execute the same binary program images as Sun 4 workstations; no porting or recompilation is required. The Solbourne machine is based on the Scalable Processor Architecture (Sparc), Sun's reduced-instruction-set-computer (RISC) chip. The Series4 also...
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