---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash SunFlash May 1992 Table Of Contents SunFLASH Vol 41 #toc May 1992 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note From The SunFlash Editor Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers Summary Of May's Messages (line count + title) Summary of Messages Sent This Month (issue # and synopsis) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Note From The SunFlash Editor Well, I learned a few things about taking a survey of the subscribers of an electronic mailings list: - use a separate alias to receive the results - explicitly set the return mail address to the survey alias - use the correct format for control-tab fields (|>field<| is correct, || is wrong) - it is not quick. My thanks to the 1000+ people who responded to my survey. I will produce a summary with counts by country and state. The names of the subscribers and their companies will remain private. My apologies to the mailing list redistributors who received the responses from the survey. I would still like any replies that you have received. This has been a busy month. With 36 articles totalling almost 8000 lines, this volume ranks as the largest SunFlash volume. Do you recall Joy's Law ? Bill Joy, a Sun Founder, predicted: (year - 1984) MIPS = 2 For 1992, MIPS = 256. The SPARCstation 10 with 4 processors delivers a SPECthruput89 of 218 or about 400 MIPS, so give or take some it looks like Joy's Law still holds! I hope that this 'law' will hold for another 9 years, because I'm looking forward for the year 2001 when MIPS = 131,072! The archive files for May 1992 should be available by the end of this week. There is a compressed tar file of all of the 1991 articles (291 articles, about 1.25Mb - about 4Mb when uncompressed.) on all of the archive servers. There are compressed tar files for each month as well as the whole year. newstop.ebay.sun.com (Sun access only) paris.cs.miami.edu pub/sunflash (* status presently unknown *) solar.nova.edu pub/sunflash src.doc.ic.ac.uk sun/sunflash uunet.uu.net systems/sun/sunflash ftp.adelaide.edu.au pub/sun/sunflash If you find material that would make a good SunFlash article, please send it to me for consideration and I'll post it. Remember, you can suppress the excess mail headers in most mail programs by adding a line to your .mailrc file thus: ignore 'Resent-From' 'X-Mailer' 'Errors-To' 'Newsgroups' 'Message-Id' 'Resent-Message-Id' 'Apparently-To' 'In-Reply-to' 'reply-To' 'References' 'Via' 'Status' 'Received' 'Return-Path' 'Precedence' 'X-Lines' If you want a copy of an article that you missed, please send the volume.issue (e.g. 41.00 for this article) to flash@sunvice.east.sun.com John J. McLaughlin System Engineer & SunFlash Editor Ft. Lauderdale, Florida USA June 2th, 1992 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of The Florida SunFlash For New Subscribers The Florida SunFlash is an electronic news service for Sun Microsystems computer users. It is distributed by more than 90 Sun offices and by about 40 Sun Local Users Groups in more than 40 countries. The Florida SunFlash has a subscription base of more that 50,000 Sun users. This is the May table of contents for the Florida SunFlash. If there are any items that you missed and really want to see, please send the required volume.issue numbers to flash@sunvice.East.Sun.com. For more information about SunFlash, send mail to info-sunflash thus: $ mail info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM Subject: info info ^D $ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary Of May's Messages -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Line Count Vol.# Title 82 41.01 Leading EDA Vendors Collaborate 305 41.02 SI Sells Specs And SPARC S/W Tools 108 41.03 SunPro Enhances Ada Environment 75 41.04 Sun Gives Edge To Brazilian Bank 102 41.05 Lower-Priced Color SPARCStation IPC 163 41.06 Hardware Upgrades 69 41.07 SunMicrophone 181 41.08 PC-NFS 4.0 Now Shipping 189 41.09 TI Announces Availability Of SuperSPARC 146 41.10 SuperSPARC Microprocessor Fact Sheet 107 41.11 TI To Follow With Next-Generation CPU 61 41.12 SunPro Tools Available For SuperSPARC 218 41.13 Third Party Products: I 358 41.14 Third Party Products: II 306 41.15 Third Party Products: III 365 41.16 Third Party Products: IV 151 41.17 Invitation To Rightsizing Seminar 60 41.18 SMCC: ISO 9000 Quality Registration 117 41.19 SunSoft Establishes European Operations 211 41.20 Sun Ada Development Environment 1.1 289 41.21 SunConnect: SunNet Manager 2.0 214 41.22 New High Capacity Tape Drive 252 41.23 SunPC 3.0 149 41.24 New Low Cost IPC 16 inch Color Config 215 41.25 Industry's Best MP Server Value 224 41.26 SMCC Unveils SPARCstation 10 220 41.27 MP Server; Enhanced 600 MPSeries 86 41.28 FANUC Expects $330M From Cadkey/SPARC 147 41.29 Price Reductions ELC, IPX, SS2 392 41.30 HOT OFF THE PRESS 143 41.31 Sun Open Systems Expo, July 20-22 387 41.32 Upgrades to SPARCstation 10 189 41.33 SPARCserver 600MP Upgrades 724 41.34 SPARCstation 10 Series 763 41.35 Delivering the Next Generation Server 181 41.36 SPARCengine 10: The MP Platform Total 7949 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Summary of Messages Sent This Month -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 41.01 Leading EDA Vendors Collaborate Leading EDA Vendors Collaborate On CAD Framework Initiative Project Sun, Cadence, Harris, Mentor, Viewlogic and Synopsys To Work Together MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. - May 4, 1992 - Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today announced that it is sponsoring a CAD Framework Initiative (CFI) pilot project, "EDA Symphony," in cooperation with leading electronic design automation (EDA) vendors Cadence Design Systems, Inc., Harris Corporation EDA Division, Mentor Graphics Corp., Synopsys, Inc. and Viewlogic Systems, Inc. The goal of the pilot project is to integrate independent EDA tools and technologies into a single solution in order to prove the commercial viability of Inter-Tool Communication (ITC) technology as specified by the CFI Release 1.0 Pilot Program. ITC technology provides a common methodology for communication among tools from different EDA vendors. The Sun-sponsored project is one of four similar projects that are working to incorporate CFI Release 1.0 specifications into actual production-level design automation tools. 41.02 SI Sells Specs And SPARC Software Tools All In One Package SI Announces Developer's ToolChest A Programmatic Approach for Migrating to Shrinkwrap SPARC Applications MENLO PARK, Calif. -- April 28,1992 -- SPARC International (SI) today announced the availability of its Developer's ToolChest, a comprehensive set of interface specifications and tools distributed on CD-ROM for systematic migration to the SPARC Compliance Definition (SCD) 2.0. Partial Listing of ToolChest Contents: o SPARC Architecture Version 8 Manual o System V Application Binary Interface (ABI) Manual o System V Application Binary Interface, SPARC Processor Supplement o SPARC Compliance Definition (SCD 2.0) for SVR4 o System V Interface Definition (SVID) Release 3, Volumes 1-5 o Migration Guides from 9 Computing Environments to UNIX SVR4 o SPARC Migration Tool 41.03 SunPro Enhances Sun Ada Development Environment MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- April 28, 1992 -- SunPro, the Sun Microsystems, Inc. business that develops, markets and supports products for professional programmers, today unveiled an enhanced version of its Sun Ada Development Environment. The new version, 1.1, can enhance the performance of user applications by up to 30 percent, based on measured improvements in industry-standard PIWG* (Performance IssuesWorking Group) benchmarks. The product is now compatible with the VADScross family of cross-development products from Verdix Corp., giving developers a common toolset with the same user interface for host and target systems development. It also contains an interface to SCCS, the popular UNIX utility forsource file version control. 41.04 Sun Systems Give Competitive Edge To Brazilian Bank Banco Bamerindus Moves to Sun Platform for Trading MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 28, 1992-- Banco Bamerindus do Brazil, one of the largest banks in Brazil, with 1,400 branches, purchased more than 45 workstations and servers from Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) to be used in its investment trading operations. The Sun computers will connect three trading room floors in Sao Paulo, Rio and Curitiba, providing realtime access to applications and data running on computers located in various locations. 41.05 Lower-Priced Color SPARCStation IPC SMCC: Under-$6k For New Lower-Priced Color SPARCStation IPC Also Reduces Prices On Desktops MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --April 27, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) unveiled a new lower-priced model of the SPARCstation(TM) IPC(TM), its popular entry-level color workstation, breaking the industry's under-$6,000 price barrier for a fully configured RISC color workstation from a major vendor. In addition, the company reduced prices on its desktop products by as much as 26 percent and introduced a lower-cost, more flexible version of its SPARCengine(R) IPX(TM) board-level product. At $5,995, the IPC workstation offers a lower price for a fully configured color RISC workstation than most competitive offerings. For example, a comparably equipped RS/6000 220, IBM's entry color RISC system, is $9,995, nearly $4,000 more than the IPC. A similarly configured 9000/710, HP's entry color system, costs $14,065 -- $8,000 more than the IPC. The IPC workstation also offers greater processing power at a lower price than many high-end color PCs. For example, the Sun system is nearly $2,000 less than a similarly equipped 486/33M PC from Compaq. 41.06 Hardware Upgrades Beginning immediately, selected key upgrade products are price-reduced and some are enhanced with more disks at no additional charge. The following configurations are affected by this announcement: Products that are price-reduced: UG4/4X0-MP64 SPARCsystem 470, SPARCserver 490, or Sun-3/470 to SPARCserver 600MP UG4/3X0-MP64 SPARCsystem 370 or SPARCserver 390 to SPARCserver 600MP UG4/330-MP64 SPARCsystem 330 to SPARCserver 630MP SUG-V32-GX-P43 Any Sun-3/386i system to SPARCstation 2 w/monitor SUG-V32-FGX-P43 Any Sun-3/386i system to SPARCstation 2 w/monitor SUG-ELC Any Sun-3/386i system to SPARCstation ELC UG4/20-Q SPARCstation SLC to SPARCstation ELC Products that are enhanced for no additional charge: ---------------------------------------------------- UG670GX-120-64-P59 Sun-3/160, 3/260, 4/260 to SPARCsystem 670MP NOTE: Will now come with one additional 1.3-Gbyte SCSI disk for a total of two. UG690-120-64-P61 (V3,V4) Sun-3/180, 3/280, 3/480, 4/280 to NOTE: Will now come with two 1.3-Gbyte IPI disks, for a total of four. 41.07 SunMicrophone - Sun now has a complete audio story - Diamond shaped microphone ships with every SPARCstation beginning mid-April,1992, making it easy to incorporate audio into applications. - Microphone can either be attached to the monitor or has a clip to attach to clothing - Microphone comes with its own battery - Extended reach - comes with a 2 meter cable Other Audio elements - AudioTool shipping with OWV3 for play/record/edit of audio - AudioTool integrated with OWV3 Multimedia Mail - All current SPARCstations are audio ready with CODEC, speakers and audio cable. Sun is now shipping a microphone free with every new Sun workstation as part of the country kit. Installed base customers can order the microphone (part #370-1414) via SunExpress for US$29. Installed base customers in those countries not having access to SunExpress may order the microphone from the spares price list. 41.08 PC-NFS 4.0 Now Shipping - Industry leading ONC/NFS product for integrating MS-DOS and MS-Windows PCs into UNIX-based multivendor networks - PC Week's Analyst's Choice award for best DOS NFS product - Full MS-Windows 3.0 and 3.1 compatibility, making PC-NFS the first networking product to support MS-Windows 3.1 - Supports token ring and interoperability with popular PC LANs - Improved network printing controls and new print server enhancements - Recommended channel for PC-NFS is SunExpress and other SunTech channel partners PC-NFS 4.0, the new release of the leading ONC/NFS networking product for integrating MS-DOS and MS-Windows PCs into UNIX-based multivendor networks, started shipping Thursday, March 19th. SMCC's strategy for selling PC-NFS is to direct customers to SunExpress and other SunTech channels. PC-NFS was the first product in the market to offer ONC/NFS on the DOS platform; ONC/NFS has the industry's largest installed base of multivendor networked systems. In a recent PC Week review of competitive products, PC-NFS was given the "Analyst's Choice" award among DOS/NFS packages. 41.09 TI Announces Availability Of SuperSPARC TEXAS INSTRUMENTS ANNOUNCES AVAILABILITY OF SuperSPARC(TM), INDUSTRY'S MOST HIGHLY INTEGRATED RISC MICROPROCESSOR HOUSTON (May 7, 1992) -- The industry's most highly integrated reduced instruction set computing (RISC) microprocessor is being produced by Texas Instruments, the company announced today. The superscalar microprocessor is designed to simplify the development of multiprocessing systems from high-volume desktop applications to powerful, massively parallel systems. Thousands of existing SPARC(TM) software applications are compatible with this single chip microprocessor. Co-developed with industry leading workstation manufacturer Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation, the 3.1 million transistor SuperSPARC microprocessor delivers peak performance of 150 million instructions per second (MIPS) at 50 MHz. Through on-chip support for MBus, an industry-standard module bus, up to four SuperSPARC microprocessors can be combined to deliver a peak performance of 600 MIPS. Up to 64 SuperSPARC microprocessors can be connected in parallel through XBus, a packet-switched extension bus. 41.10 The SuperSPARC Microprocessor Fact Sheet 4/92 TEXAS INSTRUMENTS SUPERSPARC (TM) TMS390Z50 MICROPROCESSOR Key Features Integrated on Chip O SPARC Compatible - Runs old SPARC binaries and binaries compiles for SuperSPARC pipeline - Industry's only openly evolved architecture - Multiprocessing memory model (total store ordering and partial store ordering) O Flexible Superscalar Engine: Integer Unit Control, Superscalar Integer Execution - Executes up to three instructions per clock cycle - Abundant execution units for flexible scheduling of instructions - Fixed pipeline: Instructions move in groups through the pipeline - Unique arrangement of cascaded 32-bit ALUs (arithmetic logic units) for executing multiple integer instructions in the same clock - SPARC compatibility - dynamically groups and schedules instructions in hardware without the help of compilers. - Four instruction per cycle fetch, eight instruction prefetch queue, four instruction branch target queue - Low branch latency, handles most taken and untaken branches without pipeline stalls. - Single cycle, 64-bit loads and stores with no load-use penalty etc. 41.11 TI To Follow SuperSPARC With Next-Generation CPU Products Based On SMCC's SPARC Silicon Designs Ongoing Relationship Will Benefit System Developers HOUSTON, (May 7, 1992) -- The SuperSPARC(TM) microprocessor introduced today by Texas Instruments (TI) is the first in a series of products from TI that will utilize designs from Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC). Spanning a wide range of prices and performance levels, these future microprocessor products will be available to system manufacturers worldwide. SPARC microprocessors resulting from the TI/SMCC collaboration will reflect the evolving architecture as defined by SPARC International, Inc. As part of their continuing relationship, TI and SMCC are already developing a family of highly integrated SPARC microprocessors that will accelerate SPARC's penetration into the low-cost desktop, portable and embedded markets. The first microprocessor to be available in the new family is currently being developed under a project codenamed Tsunami. It is a low-power "workstation on a chip" that will make possible the creation of very low-cost SPARC workstations with outstanding performance. Also under development is a very high-performance, next-generation series of processors that will extend the SuperSPARC family. These high-end SuperSPARC follow-ons will utilize the most advanced semiconductor technologies, such as 64-bit architectures and will function as single-chip supercomputing engines. 41.12 SunPro Programmer Tools Available For SuperSPARC MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 7, 1992 -- SunPro, Sun Microsystems' software development business, today announced its support for the SuperSPARC microprocessor, available from Texas Instruments. SunPro's line of SPARCompiler products and SPARCworks developer tools allow software developers to tap the power of SuperSPARC instantly by supporting binary compatibility across existing and new generations of the SPARC architecture. 41.13 Third Party Products: I Tivoli shipping WizDOM PSM in April AURORA and NeWSprint Unix/VMS backup product 41.14 Third Party Products: II New C++ product from Qualix gcc for Solaris 2.0 Knowledgeable Source for C++ tools from Qualix 41.15 Third Party Products: III Networking Performance and Diagnostic Package SOFTWARE SAVINGS for SUN CUSTOMERS PTI SBus Comm Controller Supports New Sftwr Tools and Protocols 41.16 Third Party Products: IV ScanShop SpeedStor New Product Announcement sysmon : a screen-oriented real-time system performance analysis tool TurboSwap(R) Improves Performance of Swap and I/O Bound Applications 41.17 Invitation To Rightsizing Satellite Broadcast RIGHTSIZING SATELLITE BROADCAST Tuesday May 19, 1992 1-800-688-9707 41.18 SMCC: ISO 9000 Quality Registration ISO 9000 Registration Critical for U.S. Companies Doing Business in Europe MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --May 11, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation today announced that all three of its worldwide manufacturing sites (Westford, Mass.; Milpitas, Calif.; and Linlithgow, Scotland) have been awarded ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 9002 Registration by the British Standards Institute. Sun has also received separate ISO 9001 registration for its U.K. customer service operations and its European logistics center. Registration to the ISO 9000 standard is essential for doing business in the European 1992 Common Market, as it has become widely accepted as a requirement of cross-border quality. There is also a growing acceptance of the standard in the United States; it has been adopted by NIST, FDA, NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense. Less than 15 companies within the U.S. computer industry have achieved worldwide ISO 9000 Registration, giving them an advantage overseas. SMCC sought ISO Registration because more than 50 percent of its revenues come from markets outside of the United States. 41.19 SunSoft Establishes European Operations Offices In UK, France And Germany Offer Solaris And Interactive 3.0 Product Lines MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 11, 1992 -- Establishing its position as a global software supplier, SunSoft Inc., today announced operations across Europe to market and distribute the Solaris and Interactive UNIX System 3.0 product lines. The company's offices are located in the United Kingdom, France and Germany. SunSoft, Inc. began operations on July 1, 1991 in Mountain View, California. The company introduced the industry's first UNIX shrink-wrapped solution, Solaris 1.0, in September of last year. It also announced the more powerful Solaris 2.0 system software for the SPARC and 80X86 computing platforms for delivery later this year. In January 1992, SunSoft acquired the Intel UNIX business from Interactive Systems Corp., the makers of Interactive UNIX System 3.0. Today, the company is the worldwide leader in 32-bit system software with an installed base of more than 600, 000 units. 41.20 Sun Ada Development Environment 1.1 SPARCworks/Ada 1.1 Sun Ada 1.1 -- Leading Ada development environment for UNIX, consisting of robust, high performance Ada compiler and comprehensive, powerful, OPEN LOOK development toolset that accelerates Ada development. -- Standards. Sun`s Ada development environment complies with ANSI/MIL-STD-1815A and is validated by the Ada Joint Program Office. -- New! Floating License technology for true client server use. Lowers the cost of ownership and offers flexibility compared with node locked compilers and tools. -- New! Support for DevGuide 3.0 adds to XView/Ada interfaces so developers can easily create powerful OPEN LOOK graphical user interface applications in Ada. -- New! SPARCworks/Ada now supports VADSCross cross development tools from Verdix Corporation. Developers can use the same powerful SPARCworks/Ada toolset for self-hosted (SPARC-based) and embedded development. 41.21 SunConnect: SunNet Manager 2.0 The following announcements were made by SunConnect today, May 18, 1992. SunConnect introduced SunNet Manager Version 2.0 and announced the addition of more than 35 new vendors to SunConnect's Partners Program for network management. The press releases are attached for your reference. SMCC U.S. list price for SunNet Manager 2.0 will be slighly higher than the SunConnect price mentioned below. Final SMCC pricing and availability information for SunNet Manager 2.0 will be distributed in an email prior to FCS. SUNCONNECT BROADLY EXPANDS NETWORK MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES OF SUNNET MANAGER Version 2.0 Adds Versatile New Features that Simplify the Management of Complex Multi-Vendor Networks WASHINGTON, D.C. -- May 18, 1992 -- SunConnect(TM), a Sun Microsystems, Inc. business, today unveiled Version 2.0 of the SunNet(TM) Manager network management environment. Version 2.0 provides new management capabilities that allow users to manage complex multi-vendor networks quickly and efficiently. Now users can manage networks of almost any size, ranging from local-area networks to enterprise-wide networks, through a single versatile environment. SunNet Manager runs on SPARC(R)/Solaris(R) systems; in the future it will also be available for other UNIX(R) systems, including those running Solaris 2.0 for the 80X86 platform, IBM(R) RS/6000 and H-P(R) 9000 series systems. 41.22 New High Capacity Tape Drive - New 5GB 8mm SCSI Tape Drive - New Multi-Tape Backup Tray for 690MP system and expansion cabinets Sun introduces significantly improved system backup capability for all SPARCstations and SPARCservers. The new 5-Gbyte 8mm tape drive offers customers twice the capacity and twice the data transfer rate performance as the current 2.3-Gbyte 8mm tape drive for the same price. With full 2.3-Gbyte format compatibility, customers can both read existing 8mm tapes and write tapes that can be read by existing 2.3-Gbyte 8mm tape drives. 41.23 SunPC 3.0 - Is a family of PC emulation products which runs MS-DOS and MS-Windows applications on a SPARC workstation - Is a replacement product for both Sun's DOS Windows 1.0 and Insignia Solutions' SoftPC 2.X. - Includes both a software and hardware component, SunPC software and SunPC Accelerator -- SunPC software emulates a complete 80286-based PC with VGA graphics capabilities -- SunPC Accelerator is an SBus card and improves the performance to the level of a 386- OR 486-based PC with SuperVGA graphics - Integrates MS-DOS and MS-Windows with the SPARC/Solaris environment - Provides an easy-to-use OPEN LOOK interface SunPC software provides the capabilities and power of a PC equipped with an Intel 80286 processor with VGA graphics. The software product is ideal for workstation users who need occasional access to MS-DOS and MS- Windows applications. 41.24 New Low Cost SPARCstation IPC 16" Color Configuration Sun continues to lower the entry price for a fully configured color workstation. The new Mid-Range 16-inch color monitor is a high quality monitor produced by the same manufacturer producing Sun's premium performance color 16-inch and 19-inch monitors. The new Mid-Range color supports 1152x900 resolution and an auto-ranging power supply, as does the existing Sun monitor product family. 41.25 Industry's Best MP Server Value New pricing, more robust configurations make SPARCserver 600MP an even better value than before -- Lower prices on entry midrange server, SPARCserver 630MP -- One additional 1.3GB SCSI disk bundled with SPARCserver 670MP packages at no additional charge -- Increasing 64MB configurations in SPARCserver 690MP to 128MB as the standard configuration at no additional charge -- Replacing the 2.3GB 8mm tape in 600MP configurations with the new 5GB 8mm tape Within five months of first shipments, SPARCserver 600MP series has become the Number One installed MP UNIX server, surpassing the installed base of systems from vendors shipping product for up to eight years. The reason is simple: SPARCserver 600MP represents the best value in a UNIX server. Now, by lowering the price of the entry midrange server, SPARCserver 630MP, Sun makes the industry's best server value available to even more customers. 41.26 SMCC Unveils SPARCstation 10 SAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- May 19, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today introduced the world's fastest desktop workstation: the SPARCstation(TM) 10. With this new computer, SMCC has completely redesigned the SPARCstation architecture, taking an innovative new approach to the memory, bus, disk and networking subsystems that significantly boosts application performance. Built around the fast new superscalar SuperSPARC(TM) chip from Texas Instruments, the SPARCstation 10 achieves a multiprocessing performance rating of up to 218 (SPECthruput89) and more than 400 MIPS in its four-microprocessor configuration. It employs a modular design that makes possible the industry's easiest, most cost-effective upgrade path to higher-performance -- and multiple -- microprocessors. All SPARCstations are binary compatible, meaning that they can run the same software. The SPARCstation 10 sets the standard for the next generation of desktop computers by being the first RISC workstation from a major vendor to include multiprocessing capabilities, which greatly improve performance, upgrade-ability and scalability. The SPARCstation 10 is also the first workstation with built-in Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) capabilities, which give users a new way to use the telephone by merging computer and phone functions into a single system. The standard for global digital telephone and networking services, ISDN is expected to enable a wealth of new applications for integrated computing and telephony to provide global wide-area networking and multimedia solutions. 41.27 MP Server; Enhanced 600 MPSeries SMCC Debuts New Multiprocessing Server Enhances SPARCserver 600mp Series SAN FRANCISCO -- May 19, 1992 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today significantly expanded the SPARCserver(TM) product family in breadth and performance, giving users an improved choice of multiprocessing server solutions to meet their computing needs. Introduced today was the new SPARCserver 10, the lowest-cost RISC/UNIX(R) multiprocessing server on the market. It is particularly well-suited for workgroups, including PC LANs. SMCC also announced a CPU upgrade featuring the high-performance SuperSPARC(TM) chip for the SPARCserver 600MP Series of multiprocessing servers, as well as new versions of these servers that feature the SuperSPARC chip. SuperSPARC effectively doubles the performance ceiling of these systems while maintaining the same range of price points. Both the SPARCserver 10 and SPARCserver 600MP servers employ a modular design that makes possible the industry's easiest and most cost effective upgrade path. To increase server throughput, users can replace existing SPARC(R) modules with higher-performance modules that plug directly into the system board, preserving their investment in the system, memory and peripherals. For example, current SPARCserver 600MP users can upgrade to SuperSPARC simply by exchanging their current SPARC module for a new SuperSPARC module offering twice the performance. 41.28 FANUC Expects $330M From Cadkey/SPARC FANUC Expects $330 Million In Initial Business From New SPARCStation/Cadkey Solution MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. --May 19, 1992-- Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. (SMCC) and Cadkey Inc. today announced that FANUC LTD. of Japan, the world's largest supplier of manufacturing automation tools, will sell SMCC's SPARCstation(TM) workstations with CADKEY(R) computer-aided design (CAD) software in an advanced system called FANUC CAD DIE(R). FANUC anticipates more than $330 million (U.S.) in sales over the next three years from the new system. Sales of Sun(TM) systems to be used in the FANUC product -- to be sold by one of SMCC's Japanese distributors -- should account for more than $63 million for the same period. Revenues for Cadkey and its exclusive Japanese distributor, Kubota Corp., is expected to be in excess of $33 million. The FANUC product will be available in July of 1992. 41.29 Price Reductions On SPARCstation 2, ELC, IPX The Industry's Most Popular Workstation Product Family Is Now More Affordable Than Ever The following End-User Price List configurations are affected by this announcement. SPARCstation ELC: SPARCstation IPX: SPARCstation 2: ----------------- ----------------- ----------------- 4/25FM-8 4/50FMX-16-P40 4/75M-32-P43 4/25FM-8-P45 4/50MX-16-P40 4/75FGX-32-P43 4/50FGX-16-P40 4/75GX-32-P43 4/50GX-16-P40 4/75GX2-32-P43 4/50FGX-16-P43 4/75S-32-P43 4/50GX-16-P43 New price reductions to the SPARCstation desktops are being announced. With these price reductions, Sun SPARCstations continue to lead the industry in value -- the best combination of price and balanced performance tuned for real world applications. 41.30 HOT OFF THE PRESS This is an edited version of an internal newsletter that I have been given permission to post to this mailing list. -johnj Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation Recent News May, 1992 Published by SMCC Public Relations 41.31 Sun Open Systems Expo, July 20-22, Anaheim, CA From: peter@sug.org (Peter Salus) Newsgroups: comp.org.sug Date: 12 May 92 13:07:10 GMT Organization: Sun User Group, Inc Suite 315 1330 Beacon St. Brookline, MA 02146 voice +1 617 232-0514 fax +1 617 232-1347 SUN OPEN SYSTEMS EXPO July 20-22, 1992 Anaheim Convention Center Anaheim, California Sun Open Systems Expo is a three-day educational conference and exhibition designed specifically for developers, end users, corporate buyers and resellers of Sun, SPARC, Solaris, RISC, and UNIX-based workstations, servers, peripherals, and software. More than 50 technical sessions and seven full-day tutorials will highlight the conference. The eighth Sun Open Systems Expo is sponsored by Publications & Communications, Inc., in cooperation with the Sun User Group, Inc. It will be held July 20-22 in the Anaheim (California) Convention Center. 41.32 Upgrades to SPARCstation 10 Sun's hardware upgrade program, rated best in the industry, just got a LOT better with: - Upgrade paths to SPARCstation 10 from: o SPARCstation 2 o SPARCstation IPX o SPARCstation 1, 1+ o Sun-3 and Sun 386i systems - Aggressive "no penalty" pricing on selected upgrade paths - Upgrades to SPARCstation 10 that mean investment protection now AND for the the future 41.33 SPARCserver 600MP Upgrades with SuperSPARC and SuperCache - Module swap upgrade to SuperSPARC with SuperCache - Cost effective board upgrades available from entire SPARCserver 300 and SPARCserver 400 series - Disk and tape investment protection - Aggressively priced enclosure exchanges for previous generation products - Enhanced future upgradeability This announcement of SPARCserver 600MP series upgrades with SuperSPARC and SuperCache, reaffirms Sun's commitment to the world's largest RISC/Unix server installed base. The SPARCserver 600MP upgrade line has six attractively priced, expandable offerings giving customers tremendous SuperSPARC processing power. These paths also provide maximum investment protection for the customer's existing peripherals. 41.34 SPARCstation 10 Series "Nothing is as Powerful as Freedom" Introducing the SPARCstation 10, the industry's premier workstation value: - 2 uniprocessor and 2 multiprocessing models deliver 2-8 times SPARCstation 2 performance: Model 30 Model 41 Model 52 Model 54 -------- -------- -------- -------- Uni Uni 2-way MP 4-way MP SPECint92 44.2 52.6 58.1 per CPU SPECfp92 52.9 64.7 71.4 per CPU SPECthruput89 (est.) N/A N/A 109 218 MIPS 86.1 96.2 200+ 400+ Mflops (DP) 10.6 17.2 38 76 TPS (estimated) 100 120 180 220 41.35 Delivering on the Promise of the Next Generation Server Family Sun doubles performance and broadens its industry leading server family with enhancements to SPARCserver 600MP series and the addition of SPARCserver 10 SPARCserver 600MP Series Enhancements: - SuperSPARC module upgrades and new models available for all 600MP packages, offering over 2X the system throughput - Next generation 10-MB/sec SCSI disk interface integrated on the systems boards and available as SBus option for installed servers - Support for 16-MB SIMMs increases memory capacity to 512 MB on SPARCserver 630MP and up to 1 GB on SPARCserver 670MP and SPARCserver 690MP - New 5-GB 8mm tape with twice the transfer rate improves backup capacity and speed - No penalty upgrades from SPARCserver 600MP Models 120; customers can take delivery today and move to SuperSPARC at price parity SPARCserver 10 brings Multiprocessing to the Workgroup: - MBus based multiprocessing now available at workgroup server prices for scaleability and innovative modular upgradeability - Support for up to 512 MB of memory and 2 GB of disk in a single pizza box package no larger than a SPARCserver 2 - Enhanced desktop expandability with 4 Sbus slots and integrated 10baseT, AUI, 10-MB/sec SCSI, serial and parallel ports 41.36 SPARCengine 10: The Multiprocessing Power Platform for Embedded Computing Applications. Announcing the SPARCengine 10 series of board computer products -- SPARCengine 10 is the SPARCstation 10 motherboard for use in embedded computing applications. It offers all the performance, features, and hardware/software compatibility of the SPARCstation 10, Models 30 and 41, workstations -- Allows OEMs and system integrators to speed their new products to market and keep ahead of competitors. OEMs can spend more time INNOVATING on top of the SPARCengine 10 platform -- SPARCengine 10 is the industry's highest performance single board computer -- SPARCengine 10 is the only RISC-based single board computer with modular onboard multiprocessing capability -- High-integration, compact size [298.9mm (11.8") x 236.2mm (9.3") x 64.0mm (2.5")], and low power dissipation design make SPARCengine 10 easy to embed -- 14 industry-standard I/O ports onboard and full Solaris and SPARCware compatibility offer unmatched applications flexibility -- Two MBus slots facilitate easy upgrades to faster and/or multiple CPUs via simple SuperSPARC CPU module swaps ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ For information send mail to info-sunflash@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@sunvice.East.Sun.COM. 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