Re: PCI and SBus adapter
From: Toomas Soome (Toomas.Soome_at_microlink.ee)
Date: 01/19/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 09:47:46 +0200
Ari Rankum wrote:
> cljlk wrote:
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>> What is the diference between PCI and SBus adapter?
>> Thanks
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> SBus is a Sun Microsystems-proprietary bus design. It used to be that
it's not proprietary since it's documented (IEEE?) standard.
> 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.
there are myriad of pci cards, but this does not mean they are available
on sun -- no drivers, no hardware documentation. proprietary.
toomas
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