SPARC

SPARC (from Scalable Processor Architecture) is a RISC instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Sun Microsystems introduced in 1986. SPARC is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc., an organization established in 1989 to promote the SPARC architecture and to provide conformance testing. Implementations of the original 32-bit SPARC architecture were initially designed and used for Sun's Sun-4 workstation and server systems, rep... more
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