[rescue] A5000 questions...

[Jonathan C. Patschke]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Frank Van Damme wrote:

> Which brings up the question... Why the HELL did Sun ever put PCI in it's
> workstations??

Cheaper, more readily-available periphreals.  There are a lot more PCI
periphreals than there are sbus.  Most Suns that have PCI also have some
64-bit variant of PCI.  The only 32-bit only ones I can think of are
AXe, 5, and 10.

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