Sun-2
Sun 2/120 server with SMD disk tower | |
| Developer | Sun Microsystems |
|---|---|
| Type | Workstation |
| Release date | November 1983 |
| Introductory price | 2/120: US$29,300 (equivalent to $69,000 in 2023) 2/160: US$48,800 (equivalent to $115,000 in 2023) |
| CPU | Motorola 68010 |
| Predecessor | Sun-1 |
| Successor | Sun-3 |
The Sun-2 series of UNIX workstations and servers was launched by Sun Microsystems in November 1983. As the name suggests, the Sun-2 represented the second generation of Sun systems, superseding the original Sun-1 series. The Sun-2 series used a 10 MHz Motorola 68010 microprocessor with a proprietary Sun-2 Memory Management Unit (MMU), which enabled it to be the first Sun architecture to run a full virtual memory UNIX implementation, SunOS 1.0, based on 4.1BSD. Early Sun-2 models were based on the Intel Multibus architecture, with later models using VMEbus, which continued to be used in the successor Sun-3 and Sun-4 families.
Sun-2 systems were supported in SunOS until version 4.0.3.
A port to support Multibus Sun-2 systems in NetBSD was begun in January 2001 from the Sun-3 support in the NetBSD 1.5 release. Code supporting the Sun-2 began to be merged into the NetBSD tree in April 2001. sun2 is considered a tier 2 support platform as of NetBSD 7.0.1.