tamir@cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir) (11/19/90)
As part of the SPARstation 2 announcement, Sun announced the SPARCengine 2
for $10K list price:
Sun also announces the SPARCengine 2 board-level product for
embedded OEM applications. SPARCengine 2 is the cpu board inside
SPARCstation 2; delivering performance of 21 SPECmarks (28.5 MIPS
and 4.2 MFLOPS) at 40-MHz clock cycle. SPARCengine 2 is complete
with 3 SBus expansion slots, 16MB of memory; expandable up to 64MB
on the motherboard and up to 96MB with 32MB add-on card, 2 RS-423
serial I/O ports, SCSI-2 support, ethernet, an audio I/O ports. New
full board-level documentation is also available for SPARCengine 2.
It seems that a box with a power supply would be all you need to make a
nice compute/file server. Are there such boxes available ? Is it really
as simple as that ?
Yuval Tamir
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