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SPARCstation, a series of SPARC based Unix workstations by Sun Microsystems, evolving from the Sun-4 line in the late 80s to compete with high-end PCs or Macs. The SPARCstation 1, first sold in April 1989. It featured several distinctive design elements driven by Andy Bechtolsheim, such as the paper sheet sized motherboard with SBus expansion cards, allowing a compact footprint of the machine.

=Chess Programs= SPARCstations were used by severel chess programs during the early 90s, in particular at the DOCCC 1992 and the WCCC 1992:
 * Ares
 * Delicate Brute
 * Duck
 * GNU Chess
 * HIARCS
 * Touch
 * Ulysses

=See also=
 * SPARC
 * Sun
 * Sun Microsystems

=External Links=
 * SPARCstation from Wikipedia
 * SPARCstation 1 from Wikipedia
 * SPARCstation 2 from Wikipedia
 * SPARCstation IPC

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