Introduced in November 1992, it is based on the sun4m architecture and enclosed in a lunchbox chassis.
[1] The SPARCstation LX incorporates a single 50 MHz microSPARC processor.
The SPARCstation LX comes with an on-board AMD Lance Ethernet chipset providing 10BASE-T networking as standard and 10BASE2 and 10BASE5 via an AUI transceiver.
The OpenBoot ROM is able to boot from network, using RARP and TFTP.
The SPARCstation LX has an accelerated CG6 framebuffer compared to the SPARCclassic's CG3.