Article: Sun Adopts Cross-platform Industry Standard, Unveils Successful Third-party Hardware Program Offering Robust Selection of PCI Solutions; Leading Hardware Vendors Offer Multitude of PCI Products for Sun's New PCI I/O-based Ultra 30 Workstations, Complementing Sun's Own PCI NIC Solutions.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 15, 1997--Sun Microsystems, Inc. today unveiled its PCI Vendor program, delivering extensive third-party support for its new Ultra(TM 30) family of Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) I/O-based workstations, also announced today.

While continuing full support for its successful SBus interface, Sun is embracing and enhancing the widely-accepted PCI I/O bus standard to provide both an industry-standard I/O interface and a growth path to future high-bandwidth requirements.

Sun(TM) is the first company to implement the PCI I/O bus specification in a multiple-channel 64-bit, 66MHz configuration, which ...

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