[TUHS] Whither Workstations? (Was Re: Demise of AT&T)

[Stuart Remphrey]

On Tue, 20 May 2025 at 06:55, Dan Cross <crossd at gmail.com> wrote:

> Interestingly, some of the earlier Sun machines were VME based. As I
> recall, if you popped the hood off of a "pizzabox" Sun 3/50, there was
> a VME SBC in there with some drive bays. In that regard, the
> SPARCstation 1 paper is worth reading as an evolutionary marker.
>
>         - Dan C.
>

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...
 - Stuart Remphrey.
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