Solbourne Computer

Solbourne Computer, Inc. was originally a vendor of computer systems based in

Solaris 2.0 in 1992. Due to the cost of engineering and producing new systems to compete with Sun's increasingly competitive hardware offerings and the loss of symmetric multiprocessing as a distinguishing feature, in 1994, Solbourne left the computer hardware business, with Grumman

Systems Support Corporation taking over support for Solbourne customers until 2000.

In 1994, Walt Pounds assumed the role of CEO of Solbourne, and the Solbourne headquarters were moved to Boulder, Colorado. From that point until July 2008, Solbourne focused on providing consulting services and solutions based on

Oracle E-Business Suite

community, and became a dominant provider of consulting services to state and local Oracle E-Business Suite customers.

On July 11, 2008, Solbourne closed a transaction to sell substantially all of the company assets to

Deloitte Consulting

. The Solbourne management team and more than 100 professionals joined Deloitte's Enterprise Applications, Technology Integration and Human Capital service areas.

Models

Solbourne's range comprises the following:

64-bit
inter-processor bus:
- Series4: 16.67 MHz Fujitsu MB86900 processor(s)
- Series5: 33 MHz Cypress CY7C601 processor(s)
- Series5e: 40 MHz Cypress CY7C601 processor(s)
- Series6: 33 MHz SuperSPARC processor(s)
- Series6E: 50 MHz SuperSPARC processor(s)
Single-processor IDT (Integrated DeskTop) workstations based on the Panasonic MN10501 KAP SPARC-compatible processor:
- S3000: portable workstation with integrated plasma display
- S4000: 33 MHz CPU "pizza-box"-style desktop workstation
- S4000DX: 36 MHz S4000 with secondary processor cache

The MN10501 processor had been developed by Solbourne in association with Matsushita, providing a single-chip product featuring an integrated floating-point arithmetic unit, memory management hardware, branch prediction logic, 8 KB of cache memory, a 64-bit data bus, and "mostly 64-bit data paths on chip".[3]

Operating systems

All Solbourne systems run OS/MP, a modified version of SunOS 4.1 supporting multiprocessor systems. The final release of OS/MP was 4.1D, corresponding to SunOS 4.1.3.

As of 2017^[update], some work has been done in porting OpenBSD to Solbourne IDT workstations.^{[citation needed]}

References

Bitsavers
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^ University of Sussex bulletin, 30th October 1990

^ Smith, Bud E. (June 1990). "Solbourne Speeds SPARC". Personal Workstation. pp. 50–52. Retrieved 29 January 2023.

External links

Deloitte Consulting and Solbourne

Solbourne corporate website

Solbourne Shack Web Page (archive.org copy)

OpenBSD/solbourne

Floodgap Solbourne Solace (with another copy of the Solbourne Shack pages)

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[2] University of Sussex bulletin, 30th October 1990

[personalworkstation199006_solbourne-3] Smith, Bud E. (June 1990). "Solbourne Speeds SPARC". Personal Workstation. pp. 50–52. Retrieved 29 January 2023.