32-bit bus primarily found in
Sun SPARCstations. SBus used to be on pretty much all
SPARC workstations, but recently
PCI has displaced it on the
low-end. SBus has a peculiar physical connector; the cards connect
parallel to the motherboard, allowing SBus to be conveniently used in
pizzabox enclosures:
|----|
|----|C
CC
MMMMMMMMMMMMM
M = motherboard
C = SBUS Connector
|----| = SBUS card
The only
disadvantage to this is that if you want to remove the lower card, the upper card has to be taken out and replaced afterwards. Sun has recently abandoned the
pizzabox enclosure, though, obsoleting the
nifty style of connector that Sbus uses. Now all that Sun produces are
boring PC-like cases.