The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):

SPARC International, Inc.

    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)