SPARC International, Inc. <body> An organisation established to promote the {Scalable Processor ARChitecture} (SPARC). Their main service is conformance testing. They also produce the "SPARC flash" newsletter and publish lists of SPARC compliant machines tested by SPARC International to be {binary compatible} with other compliant machines. (http://sparc.com/). SPARC(R) is a registered trademark of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. (1995-01-04)