<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 06:55, Dan Cross <<a href="mailto:crossd@gmail.com">crossd@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
Interestingly, some of the earlier Sun machines were VME based. As I<br>
recall, if you popped the hood off of a "pizzabox" Sun 3/50, there was<br>
a VME SBC in there with some drive bays. In that regard, the<br>
SPARCstation 1 paper is worth reading as an evolutionary marker.<br>
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- Dan C.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I recall installing small bunches of Sun 3/50 or 3/60 workstations, networked to a Sun 3/280 deskside server(-ish), for engineering offices and tertiary training rooms (around 1986 or so?) -- all VME-based -- after Sun switched from Multibus as used in the Sun 2/50 and 2/180(?) workstations. IIRC some Sun 3's desksides may still have used Multibus, for some I/O options (reel tape??) -- though I might be hallucinating that part... channeling my inner AI...</div><div> - Stuart Remphrey.</div><div><br></div></div></div>