Twelve show SPARC clones at Comdex; is there room for another Las Vegas uP? (includes related article on clone manufacturers)

EDN, December, 1990 by Vaughan, Jack

Twelve show SPARC clones at Comdex LAS VEGAS, NV -- Comdex, the largest US computer show, is so thoroughly dominated by MS-DOS and 80286/80386-based products, that a dozen demonstrations of Unix computers based on Sun Microsystems' Scalable Processor Architecture (sparc) did not noticeably raise the decibel level.

Nevertheless, a formidable group of SPARCstation 1 clones were shown by TriGem Corp, DTK Computers, GoldStar, CompuAdd, Hyundai Electronics America, Tatung, and others. "We looked at Comdex as the culmination of 1990's SPARC system announcements," says Bob Duncan, president of SPARC International (Menlo Park, CA). Not-for-profit SPARC International is an association that promotes system standards based on the SPARC architecture. It also...

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