Maintaining its commitment to keeping its computing environment open, Sun Microsystems Inc is making available the specification of its SBus free of any licensing restrictions, and will license its own implementation of the SBus as used in the Sparcstation 1. It also plans to offer an SBus Developer’s Kit, developer support services and LSI Logic Inc is to make available a key circuit that connects SBus cards to the bus. The bus was introduced in April as part of the Sparcstation 1, and Sun says more than 125 firms are looking at the SBus technology, Solbourne Computer, Texas Instruments, Seiko Instruments, Howtek, Ikon, National Instruments and Mizar among them. The move makes available everything needed to clone the Sparcstation 1.
