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From: tamir@cs.ucla.edu (Yuval Tamir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: SPARCengine 2
Keywords: Hardware
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Date: 19 Nov 90 01:00:00 GMT
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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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