[rescue] A5000 questions...

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Thu, 7 Aug 2003, Paul Weissmann wrote:

> > 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??
>
> There were many many interesting and fast bus systems way before PCI
> came around and evntually almost all vendors dropped those in favor of
> it.
>
> VME, TurboChannel, SBus, GSC, HP-PB, GIO, to name a few.

Don't forget MCA.

Peace...  Sridhar