Re: PCI and SBus adapter

From: Ari Rankum (Ari_Rankum_at_invalid.invalid)
Date: 01/18/04

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    cljlk wrote:
    > What is the diference between PCI and SBus adapter?
    > Thanks

    SBus is a Sun Microsystems-proprietary bus design. It used to be that
    Sun machines only came with SBus. When Sun started to take advantage of
    commodity hardware, they adopted PCI in some of their boxes, like the
    Ulta 10 and some of their big servers. Due to economies of scale, PCI
    cards for any given functionality are usually cheaper. Also due to
    economies of scale, it's easier to find any given functionality as a PCI
    card as opposed to an SBus card.

    Ari

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