[rescue] SBus vs. PCI

[ed at the7thbeer.com]

Eh, people said that exact same thing when Apple went from NuBus to PCI.
PCI may not be (IMHO it isn't) a better standard, but it's wide acceptance
certainly confers certain economic benefits on developers and
distributors.  Compact PCI, on the other hand, is truly 'neat and
spiffy'(sm). :)

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On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Dan Debertin wrote:

> James Sharp writes:
> 
>  > All on a couple of FastE sbus cards - no superduper 66Mhz 64Bit
>  > ultrasuperwidebanzaioverclocked PCI.
> 
> That's something I've been meaning to ask about for some time. I get
> the feeling from some people on this list think that the move from
> SBus to PCI was a bad idea for Sun. I've even heard this sentiment
> from current & former Sun engineers.
> 
> What's the technical reason?
> 
> Dan
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