SPARCstation 1


History

  • The FIRST pizza box system by any vendor.

    MIPS

  • 12.5

    MFLOPS

  • 1.2

    PROCESSOR

  • first was Futitsu, current is LSI at 20Mhz
  • has 46 chips + DRAM main memory; power 12 watts

    FPU

  • TI8847 at 20Mhz 1.4 Megaflops

    CACHE

  • 64KB direct mapped write-through design

    MMU

  • map up to 8 contexts, 1GB address space in each

    PERIPHERALS

  • 1/4" tape, CD-ROM, disk, exobyte (8mm) - scsi

    SCSI

  • micro-miniature, SCSI-2; controller chip 53C90
  • supports 4 MB/sec (asynch/synch) transfer rates
  • supports 7 scsi devices; 4 disks, 2 tapes, 1
  • optional; more supported with addition of SBus card

    MONITORS

  • 17" & 19" mono; 16" & 19" color; up to 3 monitors
  • attached; 1152x900; 66Hz

    PORTS

  • ethernet, scsi, 2 serial (RS-423), audio (internal
  • speaker), keyboard

    GRAPHICS

  • GX, 8-bit (256 colors), 2D/3D wireframe graphics
  • 480K 2D vectors/sec; 310K 3D vectors/sec;

    FRAME BUFFERS

  • 1-bit mono and 8-bit color use 1 SBus slot;

  • 8-bit GX uses 2 SBus slots; up to 3 frame buffers

    TAPE

  • external, QIC-150 MB lunchbox

    DISK

  • the disks used are Quantums 104MB each 3 1/2"
  • drives
  • the external disk is called the lunchbox
  • optional; can have up to two internal scsi disks
  • can have upto 7 SCSI devices

    FLOPPY

  • optional w/diskless configuration; internal 3 1/2"
  • floppy 1.44 MB; included when disk drive is included

    BUS

  • SBus, 3 slots
  • SBus 32 bit synch; 80-100MB peak bandwith; 3 slots
  • SBus 20MHz CPU 16 byte bursts in 11 clock
  • cycles=29MB/sec
  • SBus 20MHz DVMA 16 byte bursts in 13 clock
  • cycles=25MB/sec

    BOOT PROM

  • recognizes devices, frame buffers, SBus cards

    ETHERNET

  • standard; SBus card for 2nd ethernet (thinnet)

    OPERATING SYSTEM

  • 4.0.3c and later

    POWER

  • universal power supply; 85 watts

    SECURITY

  • has a thick metal security loop attached; impossible
  • to open system or move off desk

    UPGRADE

  • to a SS2

    PACKAGE

  • height 2.5", width 16", depth 16"

    CODENAME

  • Campus1

    ANNOUNCED

  • April 5, 1989

    Date this file was last modified

  • December 26, 1995