[rescue] A5000 questions...

[Eric Dittman]

> > Which brings up the question... Why the HELL did Sun ever put PCI in it's
> > workstations??
> 
> Cheaper, more readily-available periphreals.  There are a lot more PCI
> periphreals than there are sbus.  Most Suns that have PCI also have some
> 64-bit variant of PCI.  The only 32-bit only ones I can think of are
> AXe, 5, and 10.

The AXi is also 32-bit only.
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Eric Dittman
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