[SunHELP] Bus Speed Difference

[Torbjorn Kristoffersen]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2002 at 11:06:24AM -0500, Bret Adams wrote:
> Sorry if this is a duplicate. I dont think my first message got thru.
> 
> Hey Everybody:
> 
> I have a choice between an Ultra2 with an S bus or a Ultra 60 with a PCI 
> bus.  The chips and configurations are basically the same.
> Is it worth the extra money for the PCI bus?
> 

There is one consideration here. PCI is the most widely used bus today, it's
present in Intel and many Sun, HP, SGI, IBM and other computers.
SBus was initially designed in 1989, and was long a standard bus for Sun
computers.

I don't know if it's true, but I heard Sun is going to stop manufacturing
their SBus.

So it's really up to you, to go with SBus, or the more common PCI ...

You wouldn't be able to use the SunPCi card on an Ultra 2 either.

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Torbjorn Kristoffersen                 E-mail: sgt at digiweb.no
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