---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash Summary Of Recent Sun Product Announcements SunFLASH Vol 31 #21 July 1991 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This article is based on an interal email message that summerized the recent product announcements from Sun. -johnj ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- On 22 July, Sun Microsystems announced, worldwide, the enhancement of its desktop product family. The announcement includes the expansion of the product line with two new desktop workstations: the SPARCstation IPX and the SPARCstation ELC. Also introduced are SPARCstation 2 enhance- ments, GXplus, the new single SBus slot GX board, and the industry's highest performance SCSI disk drives for both desktop and deskside system. ***SPARCSTATION IPX*** SPARCstation IPX has built-in GX accelerated graphics, speeding window response time for all applications and allowing users to manipulate every- thing from multiple windows to complex objects in near real time. The SPARCstation IPX offers: - Sun's lowest-priced accelerated graphics - Configurability: displays (NOW AVAILABLE: 19" grayscale; 16", 19" Trinitron color) - Expandability: memory, mass storage, SBus _ Cost-effective board upgrade from SPARCstation IPC ***SPARCSTATION ELC*** SPARCstation ELC is Sun's high performance, entry-level replacement for the SPARCstation SLC. The ELC is ideal for Sun's most price sensitive cus- tomers in DBMS, Document Image Processing, Software Development and Educa- tion. It delivers sustained performance of 20.3 SPECmarks, 21 MIPS and 3 DP MFLOPS. The SPARCstation ELC is a higher performance version of its predecessor with several important improvements in packaging and serviceability. It is positioned as a client/server workstation alternative to minicomputer- attached terminals and networked PCs where color, SBus expansion, and internal storage are not required. ***SPARCSTATION 2 ENHANCEMENTS*** SPARCstation 2 now offers twice the memory and twice the internal disk capacity on all standard configurations. In addition, SPARCstation 2 offers two new graphics accelerators: SPARCstation 2GX and SPARCstation 2GXplus. The SPARCstation 2 is Sun's high-end, most expandable graphics workstation and is designed for Sun's traditional workstation customers who require the best internal I/O performance on the desktop, richly con- figured systems, maximum expandability, and/or a range of high-end graph- ics options. ***GX, GXPLUS*** Single SBus slot GX: The single SBus slot GX offers improved performance with all the functionality you've come to expect, but in a smaller pack- age. The GX now takes up only one SBus slot freeing up those valuable SBus locations for additional expandability. This new GX is available on the new enhanced SPARCstation 2 configurations, the GX/Monitor X-option, and the double SBus slot to single SBus slot GX upgrade. GXplus: The GXplus is a new graphics accelerator that delivers the two additional features most frequently requested: - 1280x1024 higher resolution display support - Hardware double buffering for smooth animation The GXplus delivers the features and performance of the new single SBus slot GX along with the above mentioned new capabilities, all in the same double SBus wide package as the original GX. ***NEW HIGH PERFORMANCE DISK SUBSYSTEMS*** The industry's highest performance SCSI disk drives for both desktop and deskside systems were also announced by Sun. In addition to being the highest performance drives available, these disks are the most cost effective disk drives ever offered by Sun. ***NEW PROMOTIONS ANNOUNCED*** ***SPARCSTATION IPC PROMOTION*** The SPARCsttion IPC, in a special configuration at promotional pricing, is available from 22 July to 31 December, 1991. The promotional "LPC" confi- guration (4/40LPC-8-P40) is in response to strong market demand for low cost color. What is the "LPC" configuration? Low Price Color, with *same* IPC diskfull system (P40): - RISC performance (13.4 SPECmarks) - 8MB system memory, 207MB internal disk - PLUS a new Sun low cost, hi-resolution 16" 66Hz color monitor ***TRADE-UP TO SPARCSTATION IPC*** Sun is offering a special trade-in program aimed at its installed based of non-SPARC(R) system users and at users of a variety of competitive sys- tems. Customers will be able to trade in a Sun-3(TM) or Sun386i(TM) sys- tem, or specific systems from other companies to receive the promotional version of the color SPARCstation IPC. ( I will post more details when I get them - johnj) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Archives are on solar.nova.edu and paris.cs.miami.edu. 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