Product Description; Product Overview - Sun Microsystems Ultra 80 Service Manual

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Product Description

This chapter contains the following topics:
Section 1.1 "Product Overview" on page 1-1
Section 1.2 "I/O Devices" on page 1-2
Section 1.3 "System Features" on page 1-3
Section 1.4 "Replaceable Components" on page 1-7
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Product Overview

The Sun™ Ultra™ 80 workstation is a multiprocessor workstation that uses the
UltraSPARC™-II family of processors. The workstation offers super-scalar processor
technology, multiprocessing, high-performance memory interconnection, and high-
bandwidth input/output (I/O). In addition, the workstation provides accelerated
graphics.
The following figure illustrates the Ultra 80 workstation. The high-level functions of
the Ultra 80 workstation include:
Power and cooling requirements for a high-performance processor
Modular internal design
Improved disk, system, memory, and I/O performance and capacities
High-performance peripheral component interconnect (PCI) I/O expansion
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