21 May
2025
21 May
'25
3:30 p.m.
On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 06:55, Dan Cross <crossd(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Interestingly, some of the earlier Sun machines were
VME based. As I
recall, if you popped the hood off of a "pizzabox" Sun 3/50, there was
a VME SBC in there with some drive bays. In that regard, the
SPARCstation 1 paper is worth reading as an evolutionary marker.
- Dan C.
I recall installing small bunches of Sun 3/50 or 3/60 workstations,
networked to a Sun 3/280 deskside server(-ish), for engineering offices and
tertiary training rooms (around 1986 or so?) -- all VME-based -- after Sun
switched from Multibus as used in the Sun 2/50 and 2/180(?) workstations.
IIRC some Sun 3's desksides may still have used Multibus, for some I/O
options (reel tape??) -- though I might be hallucinating that part...
channeling my inner AI...
- Stuart Remphrey.