Back in the 1990's I worked for a company that I think was the few independent SPARC integrators in the southern hemisphere. We resold these units called Sparcp

Back in the 1990's I worked for a company that I think was the few independent SPARC integrators in the southern hemisphere. We resold these units called Sparcplugs created by Ross Technologies in Austin, Texas: https://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4148519/ROSS-Technology-Introduces-SPARCplug-Motherboard-and-ASIC-Chip-Set-for-Embedded-Applications https://www.edn.com/electronics-news/4148519/ROSS-Technology... Kind of cool idea, you could plug a HyperSPARC motherboard into a 5.25" floppy bay of a PC. Never really took off though. We also did custom UltraSPARC 1/2 machines in custom enclosures for the HK MTR system which were used for monitoring air quality in the underground. We'd tested them for reliability by pushing the cabinets off a six foot drop in the loading bay of the warehouse to test whether they'd keep running in earthquake conditions. Fun times. Sparc might have had its warts and has obviously lost marketshare to the point where it's no longer really viable for the most part. But all through the 1990's Sun hardware was everywhere, and it was nice to have a relatively inexpensive alternative to Linux which was already making huge inroads especially into the lower end, eg. ISP's etc.