Re: PCI and SBus adapter

From: Toomas Soome (Toomas.Soome_at_microlink.ee)
Date: 01/20/04 

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 10:07:02 +0200

Ari Rankum wrote:

> I don't think you'll see a claim in my post that any pci card can run on
> a Sun.

thats not a point.

>
> The publication of the standard was done to allow card manufacturers to
> create SBus compliant cards. Nobody but Sun uses the bus in their
> computers. As to my choice of the word proprietary - it was the best I
> could do for "a design that only Sun uses in their computers" in a
> single word. I figured most in the know would leave such a choice
> alone. Unless they were terminally anal, scanning Usenet for any nit
> they can pick, no matter how miniscule, no matter how late, that is. Get
> a life.
>

it doesn't matter how many companies are using it nor how many computers
using this technology are manufactured, it matters if it's documented
and if you can access this documentation.

with proprietary technology you can't create your own
version/implementation of it. if this is reasonable or not (regarding to
market size or whatever) is different story at all.

toomas 

-- 
There is no likelihood man can ever tap the power of the atom.
		-- Robert Millikan, Nobel Prize in Physics, 1923

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