sunflash-Distributed to mailing list sun/NC/north-carolina sunflash-Send requests, problems to owner-sunflash@suntri.east.sun.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Florida SunFlash New SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit Supports Multiprocessing SunFLASH Vol 62 #5 February 1994 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 62.05 New SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit Supports Multiprocessing SMCC introduces the SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III, which helps developers extend product lifetimes and speed development efforts. SBus is a high performance I/O bus whose low power consumption and small form factor make it scalable from portable systems to supercomputers. It is included in all SPARCstation, SPARCserver and SPARCcenter systems from SMCC. (95 lines) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ensures Solaris 2 Compatibility MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- February 1, 1994 -- Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation (SMCC) today introduced the SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III, which helps developers extend product lifetimes and speed development efforts. Recently accepted as an IEEE industry standard, SBus is a high performance I/O bus whose low power consumption and small form factor make it scalable from portable systems to supercomputers. It is included in all SPARCstation(TM), SPARCserver(TM) and SPARCcenter(TM) systems from SMCC. Based on the Solaris(R) 2 operating environment, the kit reflects the latest SMCC hardware architectures, including multiprocessing systems, and includes a comprehensive reference to the Solaris 2.3 device driver interface (DDI). Compliance to the DDI is critical in ensuring device driver compatibility between successive releases of Solaris. The kit also provides summary information on the IEEE 1496-1993 SBus specification. "There are over 150 vendors offering more than 400 products based on the SBus specification -- not including OEM and other embedded applications -- and they are rapidly moving to the Solaris 2 environment," said Harold Sonenklar, SBus marketing manager, SMCC. "The new kit lets developers expand their market opportunities, providing backward and forward compatibility with the most recent improvements in our workstation and operating system technology." The new kit contains four manuals: The SBus Handbook includes a guide to design considerations for SMCC hardware, IEEE SBus protocol information, and a guide to SBus products and services; SunOS(TM) 5.3 Writing Device Drivers including a diskette of sample drivers and utilities, and an extensive selection of man pages to serve as a comprehensive reference for driver writers; Writing FCode Programs, Version 2 containing Forth language extensions; OpenBoot(TM) command Reference, Version 2 covering Rev. 2 of OpenBoot. The SBus/SCSI Developer's Kit, Release III is now available worldwide from PTR Prentice Hall Publishers for $215 (U.S. suggested list price), and from SunExpress. Individual manuals can be purchased separately from PTR Prentice Hall. For additional pricing and availability information, contact SunExpress at (800) 872-4786 or PTR Prentice Hall at: (201) 592-2657. PTR Prentice Hall, a division of Paramount Publishing's Higher Education Group, is the premier source of computer science and engineering books and documentation. Paramount Publishing, the publishing operation of Paramount Communications Inc., is America's leading publisher of educational materials from textbooks to computer-based learning systems, and has significant operations serving the consumer and business, technical and professional publishing markets. Paramount Communications Inc. is a global entertainment and publishing company. (c) Sun Microsystems ********************************************************************** For information about SunFlash send mail to info-sunflash@Sun.COM. Subscription requests should be sent to sunflash-request@Sun.COM. Archives are on draco.nova.edu, ftp.uu.net, sunsite.unc.edu, src.doc.ic.ac.uk and ftp.adelaide.edu.au For last month's digest, send email to flashadm@sun.com with a Subject line of 60.00 For Gopher and WAIS access: sunsite.unc.edu. (Login as 'gopher' for a simple gopher client, 'swais' for a simple WAIS client (over 500 databases). All prices, availability, and other statements relating to Sun or third party products are valid in the U.S. only. Please contact your local Sales Representative for details of pricing and product availability in your region. Descriptions of, or references to products or publications within SunFlash does not imply an endorsement of that product or publication by Sun Microsystems. Send brief articles (e.g. third party announcements) and include contact information (non-800#, fax #, email, etc) to: John McLaughlin, SunFlash editor, flash@Sun.COM. +1 305 351 4909