Exploring the 1990 Solbourne Computer S3000 Workstation and Its Competition
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Summary
The article discusses the 1990 Solbourne Computer S3000 workstation, highlighting its competition with the Sun SPARCstation and its innovative features like the Kick-Ass Processor (KAP).
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· 3 pulledWho needs a jack-o-lantern when you've got a bright orange gas plasma display?
It is slightly faster than, and the S3000 and the related S4000 and later S4000DX/S4100 directly competed with, the original gangsta 1989 Sun SPARCstation and SPARCstation 1+.
Solbourne was an early SPARC innovator through majority owner Matsushita, who was a SPARC licensee in competition with Fujitsu, and actually were the first to introduce multiprocess
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