The SPARCstation LX incorporates a single 50 MHz microSPARC processor. It has three banks with two DSIMM slots each. The official maximum configuration uses 16MB modules, but the first bank can also hold 32MB modules giving a maximum of 128Mb memory. It can hold one internal 50-pin, single ended, fast-narrow SCSI drive and a floppy. It also supports external SCSI devices. There is no IDE/ATAPI support.

The SPARCstation LX comes with an on-board AMD Lance ethernet chipset providing 10BaseT networking as standard and 10Base2 and 10Base5 via an AUI transceiver. The OpenBoot ROM is able to boot from network, using RARP and TFTP. Like all other SPARCstation systems, the SSC holds system information such as MAC address and serial number in NVRAM. If the battery on this chip dies, then the system will not be able to boot.

Donated by Mark O' Neil

Manufacturer: Sun
Date: November 1992

This exhibit has a reference ID of CH20670. Please quote this reference ID in any communication with the Centre for Computing History.

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