Computer workstation and server family accommodates multiple SPARC processors. (Solbourne Computer Inc's Series4-600 workstation and Series4-800 file server families) (product announcement)

EDN, February, 1989 by Leibson, Steven H.

Computer workstation and server family accommodates multiple SPARC processors The Series4/600 computer workstations and Series4/800 file/compute servers employ SPARC (scalable processor architecture) [mu]Ps and execute programs writtenfor Sun 4 computers from Sun Microsystems (Mountain View, CA), including Sun's own diagnostic programs. However, unlike the Sun 4 machines, the Series4 computers accommodate as many as four SPARC CPUs, thus enhancing the computers' ability to execute multiple tasks quickly.

All models in the Series4 family include at least 16M bytes of RAM, a 7-slot VME Bus card cage, an Ethernet LAN controller, two RS-423A/RS-232C ports, a SCSI port for connecting to mass-storage devices, the SunOS Unix operating system, the X Window System...

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