[Suns-at-Home] E3500

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>From: "Lewis, Benjamin (Ben)" <blewis3@alcatel-lucent.com>
>Date: 2007/01/09 Tue PM 11:52:37 CST
>To: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com
>Subject: RE: [Suns-at-Home] E3500

>> Here are some notes about the E3500, based on my experiences.  
>
>Hello Mark
>
>Many thanks for the sound advice.
>
>Would you happen to know of a decent s-bus frame buffer which will fit
>in the E3500?
>
>Mine has the standard CGSix and it's rather frustrating to finally have
>enough power to use the Java Desktop but to only have it rendered in
>wonderful 8bit fuzz-o-vision.

There are _no_ single-slot SBUS framebuffers available that render greater than 256 colors, AFAIK (there may have been some that used multiple SBUS slots and offered greater color depth, but they are rare and slow, as I recall)...

The E3500 is not a desktop/workstation machine, if you really want to run Java Desktop you should get a workstation, like the U2/10/30/60/80 (and others) that can accomodate UPA framebuffers and a Gig or more of RAM...

You could use XDM to run a session on another device with greater color depth.

HTH,

Ken