[Suns-at-Home] Re: Graphics on a SS20

[Phillip Tong]

Matthew Swabey wrote:
> 
> I have recently purchased a 3x 200MHz Ross Hypersparc Sparc Station 20 with 256MB for about £150.
> 
> The graphics are supplied by a TGX board.
> 
> Since I plan to use this machine for websurfing and report writing could you recommend a 24 bit framebuffer.
> 
> I have a LEO card at the moment from a friend but as far as I can tell solaris 8 doesn't support it anymore.

Assuming it's a Sun Sparc 20 (and not a clone), I believe that a VSIMM
can be inserted into one of the memory slots which then utilises the
on-board frame buffer. (A 4MB one provides up to 1152x900 at 24 bit [or
1280x1024 at 8 bit] and an 8MB one gives 1280x1024 at 24 bit).
The VSIMM I believe is a 70ns variety (80ns ones are for the SS10SX).

Phil.
(apologies if this message reaches you twice)

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Phillip Tong

You were expecting some sort of quote here? Ha!