Sun Microsystems, Inc.

SIGGRAPH 2003

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the leading provider of workstations, servers and services for technical and creative professionals. Sun’s broad, powerful and scalable line of graphics systems combined with ISV and IHV partnerships allows individuals and teams to collaborate for increased productivity

SIGGRAPH 2002

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the leading provider of workstations, servers, and services for technical and creative professionals.

SIGGRAPH 2001

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the leading provider of workstations, servers, and services for technical and creative professionals.

SIGGRAPH 2000

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide Intranets. Sun’s broad, powerful, and scalable line of graphics hardware and software solutions offers investment protection in real-world environments.

SIGGRAPH 1999

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a leading provider of high-quality hardware, software, and services for establishing enterprise-wide Intranets. Sun’s broad, powerful, and scalable line of graphics hardware and software solutions offers investment protection in real-world environments.

SIGGRAPH 1998

A singular vision, “The Network Is the Computer,” has propelled Sun Microsystems to its position as a leading provider of enterprise-wide hardware and software solutions, the innovative Java programming environment, and high-performance 3D graphics workstations.

SIGGRAPH 1997

A singular vision, “The Network Is the Computer,” has propelled Sun Microsystems to its position as a leading provider of enterprise-wide hardware and software solutions, the innovative Java programming environment, and high-performance 3D graphics workstations.

SIGGRAPH 1996

Sun Microsystems Computer Company is the world leader in the UNIX technical workstation market for the fifth straight year. The tremendous popularity of Ultra workstations (graphics price/performance that outpaces the competition) and Java/lnternet technology continue to increase customer acceptance of Sun’s technical computing commitment.

SIGGRAPH 1995

Sun Microsystems Computer Company is the world leader in design, manufacture, and sale of network computing systems. Sun’s SPARCStations and multiprocessing servers hold the No. 1 UNIX marketshare position. See the SPARCStation TurboZX, the hottest graphics performance desktop around; demo Java, the object-oriented programming language, and Hotlava, our dynamic web browser.

SIGGRAPH 1994

This year you’ll see a complete line of graphics and imaging workstations from Sun. We offer a system for every budget, from the economical SPARCclassic M system and the powerful, multiprocessing SPARCStation 20ZX, to the sophisticated SPARCStation 20 with the Freedom Series option. Don’t miss the continuous live demonstrations of accelerated 2D graphics, fully texturemapped 3D solids, virtual reality, imaging, and visualization for business, technical, and scientific applications.

SIGGRAPH 1993

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation is exhibiting its new line of graphics workstations. From the SPARCStation LX TGX to the powerful, multiprocessing SPARCStation 10 ZX, SMCC offers graphics workstations for the business, technical, and scientific marketplace. See accelerated 2D graphics, fully texture-mapped 3D solids, and imaging and visualization.

SIGGRAPH 1992

Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation invites you to discover the power of freedom. With Sun’s Open Graphics Initiative (OGI), you can now choose the graphics solution that fits your need—at a price you can afford. Sun offers a full line of graphics workstations, as well as multimedia and printing solutions. See how Sun is changing the graphics industry and how you can benefit.

SIGGRAPH 1991

Sun Microsystems invites you to see the latest in sophisticated yet affordable graphics systems. Sun offers a full line of graphics and visualization workstations, as well as multimedia and printing solutions. Our combination of both platforms and graphics APIs delivers the industry’s most robust, integrated environment.

SIGGRAPH 1990

Sun Microsystems is demonstrating a wide range of graphics functions on the GX, GXP and CXP family of graphics workstations. The GX allows very fast rendering of color, 8-bit 2D/3D vectors, while the CXP offers 8-bit color and 3D solids modeling. The GXP provides 24-bit color and 3D solids modeling. Also featured are Sun’s visualization and image processing accelerators, software, and a broad range of graphics software libraries, such as XGL, SunPHIGS and SunGKS.

SIGGRAPH 1989

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is demonstrating a wide range of new graphics technologies including the GX and GXP families of accelerated graphics workstations. The GX allows very fast rendering of 2D/3D vectors, while the GXP offers 24-bit color and 3D solids modeling. Also featured are SunVideo, which displays true-color full-motion video images and the TAAC application accelerator for advanced rendering, image processing, and volume rendering. SunPHIGS and SunGKS graphics software are demonstrated on a broad range of workstations.

SIGGRAPH 1988

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is the world’s leading supplier of network-based distributed computing systems, including technical workstations, graphics and applications accelerators and systems, servers and VNX operating system and productivity software.

SIGGRAPH 1987

Sun Microsystems, Inc. supplies distributed computing systems based on standards including technical workstations, servers, UNIX, data communication products and networking software. Sun markets workstations and boardlevel products to OEMs and technical end-users in a variety of markets. Trancept Systems, a subsidiary of Sun Microsystems, will feature the Trancept TAAC-1, a plug-in Application Accelerator for SUN workstations providing 20-100 times speed up of imaging, graphics and analysis related applications such as simulation, animation and solids modeling. Libraries and a C compiler make it easy to access the TAAC-1 ’s power. In addition, the TAAC-1 leads the industry in high quality, interactive 3-D graphics performance.

SIGGRAPH 1986

The Sun-3 family of high-performance, general-purpose workstations integrates a full 32-bit architecture with a MC68020 processor, industry standard VMEbus, high-resolution graphics, highspeed local area networking and Sun’s operating system. Based on the Berkely 4.2 version of UNIX, Sun’s OS adds major enhancements for networking, graphics and the user interface.

SIGGRAPH 1985

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is exhibiting its line of general-purpose workstations for technical professionals. Sun workstations integrate Motorola 68000-family processors, high-resolution graphics and Ethernet local area networking with Sun’s operating system, based on the Berkeley 4.2 version of UNIX.

SIGGRAPH 1984

Sun Microsystems is displaying members of its Sun-2 family of SunStations-high-performance multi-purpose workstations designed for the technical professional to enhance productivity. Each SunStation offers 68010 virtual memory processor, 1-4 MB main memory, high-resolution 19-inch bit-mapped display, an optical mouse and Sun UNIX 4.2 bsd enhanced with support for graphics and networking. The SunStations can be networked together via Ethernet to form a distributed computing environment, sharing peripherals like mass storage, printers, etc. The SunStations currently are used in a wide variety of applications including CAD/ CAM/ CAE, typesetting and documentation preparation, software development, animation, a range of scientific and research applications and artificial intelligence.

SIGGRAPH 1983

SUN Microsystems is displaying the Sun Workstation, a high-performance desktop computer that supports a wide range of scientific and engineering applications.The workstation is based on the MC68010 processor with a proprietary memory management unit providing 16M bytes of virtual memory per process. The Sun operating system is UNIX 4.2bsd: UNIX enhanced with support for virtual memory through demand paging, a high-performance file system, networking, and an advanced user interface which includes a “window” screen management package and an optical “mouse” pointing device.The Sun Workstation operates in a distributed environment, where a number of diskless Sun workstations are linked via a 10 Mbps Ethernet to share file servers, print servers and other peripherals.