What is and isn’t in the Sun operating system for Intel Corp machines hasn’t all been decided yet, but time-to-market is a pre-eminent consideration so the company has set up a technical council that includes its Intel partners to spec out what’s necessary: its not expected to try to accommodate every single Intel device driver. The EISA bus will probably be written in first, ATs can be hooked off of that. Conformance to the processor-specific application programming interfaces inherent in BCS 2.0, much as the Santa Cruz Operation Inc might fancy it, are not a market necessity, SunSoft reckons. SunSoft and the council apparently have until the beginning of November to work it all out.
