/learn/learning-center/b/blog/posts/one-of-the-best-cpu-ever-made-sparc-famiThe family Includes , SupperSparc, UltraSparc Sun Microsystems. The Sparc was a RISK processor. A Sparc CPU original 32-bit architecture (SPARC V7) was used in Sun&#39;s Sun-4computer and workstation systems, which replaced the M680...en-USTelligent Community 12https://community.element14.com/learn/learning-center/b/blog/posts/one-of-the-best-cpu-ever-made-sparc-famiSat, 23 Dec 2023 19:13:10 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8c459b0e-e960-4d39-af85-fff45f67cda8DAB0<p>Yes I remember when they were all the rage.</p> <p>Now only a few of us remember they ever existed.</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27368&AppID=121&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">https://community.element14.com/learn/learning-center/b/blog/posts/one-of-the-best-cpu-ever-made-sparc-famiThu, 21 Dec 2023 22:46:55 GMT93d5dcb4-84c2-446f-b2cb-99731719e767:8c459b0e-e960-4d39-af85-fff45f67cda8shabaz1<p>Amazing machines. Full of neat features like rotating register sets! Also, Sun had one of the best debuggers (DBX) until GNU could reach the point of replacing the Sun compiler tools. Plus Solaris had DTrace. And there were all sorts of sophisticated tools for instrumenting and performance monitoring of C/C++ code, that I have never seen on other platforms since (Android being&nbsp;one of the&nbsp;exceptions).</p> <p>I still have a Sun Blade 2000 desktop machine (it&#39;s massive, you wouldn&#39;t want it on top of the desk!), although it&#39;s not been powered up in a decade. That beast was 64-bit, and could drive a couple of full-HD monitors (great for software development), when PCs were still running 32-bit Windows, and 1024x768 resolution was considered good.</p> <p><img alt=" " height="444" src="/resized-image/__size/790x888/__key/commentfiles/f7d226abd59f475c9d224a79e3f0ec07-8c459b0e-e960-4d39-af85-fff45f67cda8/pastedimage1703198911581v1.png" width="395" /></p> <p>(image source: Wikimedia Commons)</p><img src="https://community.element14.com/aggbug?PostID=27368&AppID=121&AppType=Weblog&ContentType=0" width="1" height="1">