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.