View source for Milestone-Proposal:SPARC RISC Architecture Introduction, 1987

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|a11=Yes
|a3=1987-present
|a1=SPARC RISC Architecture
|plaque citation=The SPARC RISC architecture was introduced in 1987 by Sun Microsystems. Leveraging UC Berkeley RISC and Sun compiler and operating system developments, the SPARC architecture is highly adaptable to evolving semiconductor technology and user needs. The architecture delivers the highest performance, scalable workstations and servers, for engineering, business, Internet, and cloud computing applications. <come back to this>
|a2b=Santa Clara Valley Section
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|Senior officer name=Ed  Aoki
|Senior officer email=e.aoki@ieee.org
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|IEEE units arranging={{IEEE Organizational Unit Arranging
|Unit=Santa Clara Valley Section
|Senior officer name=Ed Aoki
|Senior officer email=e.aoki@ieee.org
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|Section=Santa Clara Valley Section
|Section chair name=Ed Aoki
|Section chair email=e.aoki@ieee.org
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|Milestone proposers={{Milestone proposer
|Proposer name=Uday Kapoor
|Proposer email=Uday Kapoor <uday.kapoor@oracle.com>
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|Proposer name=Richard Ahrons
|Proposer email=ahrons@alum.MIT.edu
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|a2a=4160 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
|a7=Oracle Campus, 4160 Network Circle, Santa Clara, CA 95054
|a8=No
|mounting details=Mounted on a wall in a publicly-accessible building on the Oracle Campus
|a9=Oracle's campus is secured and is protected as a historical site.
|a10=Oracle Corporation
|permission letter=Oracle email approval letter SPARC.doc
|support letter=2- Minutes-SCVSection-13-02-06-R2.pdf
|a4=- Delivered a new level of performance that enabled a myriad of new applications
- Cost effective technology made available to commercial uses in volume
- Open architecture adapted by multiple companies allowing independent innovations
- SPARC was standardized as IEEE Std. 1754
- Backward compatiblity
- Compiler, OS and SPARC architecture and systems evolved together to provide differentiated performance.
- Was the platform for semiconductor development
- Pioneering the fabless semiconductor microprocessor manufacturing process
|a6=- Initial funding constraints
- Finding semiconductor partners to fab the CPUs
- Concurrent development of CPU, OS, Compiler
- Porting of software to new SPARC architecture
- Dislodging of the incumbent 68000 architecture
|a5=- Delivered performance
- Optimizing for and delivering total system solutions (OS, Compiler, CPU, Systems)
- Maniacal focus on SPARC systems - all wood behind one arrow
->>> MIPS, POWER, PA-RISC
|references=- IEEE Std. 1754
- Find a few key patents
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SPARC
- Computer history museum panels
   http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102745979
   http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/accession/102746231
|supporting materials=SPARC_Timeline.pdf
|submitted=No
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