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		SUN JOINS VITA AS SPONSOR MEMBER

SunFLASH Vol 14 #14 					 February 1990 
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LONG BEACH --February 14, 1990-- Sun Microsystems today announced that
the company has joined the VMEbus International Trade Association
(VITA) as a sponsor member.  The announcement was made at
BUSCON/90-WEST, an industry conference and trade show dedicated to
computer board and system technology.

"Sun has worked on the VITA Next Generation Working Group for the past
year and a half.  By formally joining VITA, Sun can extend its role in
supporting open bus architectures through membership in the VITA
Technical Committee," said Lym Hevle, executive director of VITA.

Sun is a leading supplier of VME-based computer systems worldwide.  The
company continues to support its customer needs with open buses,
including VMEbus, and SBus.  The latter is a low cost, high performance
modular I/O interconnect introduced in Sun's highly successful
SPARCstation(TM) 1 desktop RISC computer.

VITA is promoting the VME Futurebus Extended Architecture (VFEA) as the
new standard for high-performance bus design technology, which includes
the Futurebus+ family of specifications. "Sun recognizes the innovation
and excellence embodied within the IEEE Futurebus+ specifications.  We
will continue to support this leading-edge IEEE development activity,
with a view to using this technology at the appropriate time," said
Wayne Rosing, vice president of the desktop systems and graphics group
at Sun.

At BUSCON, Sun also demonstrated the Sun SPARCengine(TM) 1Eurocard.
The SPARCengine 1E is a 12.5-MIPS, board-level computer that combines
the price/performance advantages of SPARC and SBus with the flexibility
and compatibility of VME in a 6U board. "The introduction of this
product represents both a serious commitment to the embedded
applications market and a clear indication of Sun's support for the
objectives embodied by VITA," said Dr. Paul Borrill, Director of the
SBus Architecture and Support Group at Sun.

Sun Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, Calif., is a
leading worldwide supplier of network-based distributed computing
systems, including professional workstations, servers and UNIX
operating system and productivity software.

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