[rescue] A5000 questions...

Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez lefa at ucsc.edu
Wed Aug 6 17:53:22 CDT 2003


> *big eyes*
>
> And Sun had Sbus what year? 1990? Or earlier?
>
> Which brings up the question... Why the HELL did Sun ever put PCI in it's
> workstations??

Becasue teh market for SBUS is 1000 times smaller than PCI, so it is a
little bit hard to get manufacturers to release SBUS products, easier to
get some PCI board and work around the drivers than do a complete
redesign.



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