Numbers, certainly.
Written on May 31st , 2026 by Tech Ads
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If it sometimes seems that work-
station vendors talk too much about specs,
maybe it’s because they have so little else
to talk about.
Not so with Sun’s new SPARCstation™
ELC™ and SPARCstation IPX." Yes, you'll
be impressed with their specs. Really
impressed — especially: considering the
price.
But step away from the hardware a
bit, and you'll discover other numbers
that are just as powerful.
Consider, for instance, that SPARC-
station is the Number One selling work-
station family available today. It’s a com-
forting fact in a world of ever-changing
vendor alliances, consortiums, and deal-
making.
Or that SPARCstation is famed for
making tremendous power increasingly
affordable (our new $4,995 SPARCstation
ELC — a 20.3 SPECmark power-
house — is a good example).
The 475,000 Sun workstations and
servers that are up and running make
ours the industry's third most popular
operating system. And since software
developers go where the users are, you
can imagine how much your company
can get done on a Sun.
Better yet, don’t imagine. Crack
Introducing two
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numbers in
The new $4,995 SPARCstation ELC gives you more than twice
the power of our previous entry-level monochrome workstation:
20.3 SPECmarks from a single 33-MHz chip that performs
both integer and floating-point calculations. Load it with up
to 64 MB of memory, and up to 5.2 GB of external storage.
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workstations
most powerful
the business.
The new $11,995 SPARCstation IPX is the lowest-cost acceler
ated graphics workstation we've ever offered. Its GX accelerator
is on the motherboard, freeing up an expansion slot. Its 40-MHz
integrated integer [floating point processor performs up to 24.4 SPEC-
marks. (Color monitor available at additional cost).
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Microsystems, Inc. SPARCstation is a trademark of SPARC International, Inc, licensed exclusively to Sun Microsystems, Inc. Products
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open our latest applications catalog.
Lotus® 1-2-3°, Oracle®, and some 3,500
other solutions give you the UNIX®
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Should all this motivate you to take
a closer look at our SPARC stations,
you're not alone. Companies around the
world have thus far invested $9 billion
in Sun systems. Honestly, if that isn’t
reassuring, what is?
Perhaps this: Every system we sell
is supported by a force of 16,000 tech-
nical experts worldwide, through more
than sixty service partners. If
you ever need help, they can
provide it.
Hopefully, these are the kind of num-
bers you like to hear. In which case we'd
like to offer one more: 1-800-426-5321,
ext. 275. Call, and we'll send all sorts of
useful information about our new
SPARCstations.
Numbers, certainly. But a few more
words and pictures, too.
@ sun
microsystems
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‘Numbers, certainly.’
Released in 1991, Sun’s SPARCstation IPX was a professional SunOS desktop computer based around a 40 MHz Fujitsu or Writek SPARC-compaltable CPU and the SBus computer BUS for expansion. Selling for 11,995 USD for the monochrome display version and 13,495 USD for the colour display version, by the third quarter of 1991 the SPARCstation IPX was the fourth best selling Unix Workstation on the market.
An Oracle technical Systems Overview document can be viewed here. A deeper dive into the hardware can be viewed at OldSilicon.com
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