[Suns-at-Home] E3500

[Nuno Pires]

On Wed, 10 Jan 2007, der Mouse wrote:

>> There are _no_ single-slot SBUS framebuffers available that render
>> greater than 256 colors, AFAIK
>
> I think this is wrong, actually.  Check out the SUNW,leo for an
> example - it's got something like 80 or 90 bits per pixel, as I read
> what docs I've been able to find.  (Not all of them are colour-depth
> pixels; some are Z-buffer and such.  But I'm fairly sure it's got at
> least 24bpp.)
>

Never seen one, but isn't the leo two sbus slots wide?

> There's also the S24, which is SBus from the host CPU's point of view
> but uses a mechanically (and probably electrically) different
> connector; it exists only for the SS4 or SS5 (I can never keep it
> straight which one).  Depending on how you define "sbus framebuffer",
> it may or may not count.
>

As someone said there are some cards from third-party vendors. I saw this 
one on eBay Germany:

http://cgi.ebay.de/SUN-SS10-SS20-Grafikkarte-RasterFlex-HR_W0QQitemZ190068177886QQihZ009QQcategoryZ22462QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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Nuno P.