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Author(s) -
Carl Machover,
John Dill
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
journal of the american oil chemists' society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.512
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1558-9331
pISSN - 0003-021X
DOI - 10.1007/bf02544787
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , information retrieval , world wide web
Sun Microsystems has introduced the Sun-2/160 Color Sun Station, an integrated color workstation with a high-resolution display and a full range of software tools, including a library of graphics utilities. The Sun-2/160 provides a 19-inch, 1152 x 900-resolution, flicker-free display with a 66-Hz noninterlaced refresh rate. Eight color planes can show 256 colors simultaneously, selected from a palette of more than 16 million, and the display controller can instantly zoom in integer multiples of I to 16 and pan in increments of one pixel. The Sun-2/160 is based on the Motorola MC68010 microprocessor operating at 10 MHz with no wait states and can access up to 16M bytes of virtual memory per process. Graphics software includes Sun Windows , a multiwindow screen management package, and Sun Core, a full implementation of the ACM Siggraph Core graphics standard with extensions such as hidden-surface removal and smooth-surface shading of polygons. In addition to electrical and mechanical computer-aided design applications such as VLSI design and structural modeling, the Sun-2/160 can be used for numerous scientific analyses and simulations. The Sun-2/160 can operate as a stand-alone workstation or in a local network with other Sun workstations and equipment from other vendors. A 12-slot card cage and VME bus allow the Sun-2/160 to be customized to meet the needs of end users and OEMs. A IM-byte Sun-2/160 Color Sun Station lists at $32,900, with volume discounts available. The Sun-2/160 is also available in 2M-and 4M-byte configurations. Unix 4.2BSD, networking, Pascal, C, and Fortran are standard on all Sun workstations.