[Suns-at-Home] Re: Suns-at-Home digest, Vol 1 #477 - 1 msg

[Scott Stevens]

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 09:16:55 -0800
Brian Costello <costellob@asme.org> wrote:

> If memory serves... The S24 was the SX onboard frame buffer on SS20 (and 
> some SS10s) that you needed a special extra wide DIMM to enable. Some 
> mother boards also had a feature connector that allowed a special 
> sbus-like board to be installed to allow a second SX interface. I 
> believe you also needed a second special DIMM to enable the second SX. I 
> do not think there was an SBUS version of SX from SUN but then again 
> that was well over 10 years ago.
> 

I have a SparcStation 10SX which has dual onboard S24 video on the motherboard.  It has two 13W3 connectors, one of them coming off the special connector cited above, and two of the special VSIMMs.  I'm not using it at present, but it's a wonderful but slow double-headed desktop machine that runs Xinerama very well.  Unfortunately there aren't a lot of exciting things one can do with cgfourteen graphics today.  

I think a dualheaded SS10SX is what would be considered the ultimate SparcStation 10, although mine is badged on the case as a regular SS10.

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> > [Suns-at-Home] Re: S24
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> > Rick Leir <rleir@leirtech.com>
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> > Sat, 13 Jan 2007 04:05:39 -0500
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> >On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 12:05 -0500, suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com
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> >>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 
> >>    
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> >My memory (which is thankfully spotty) says this S24 was for the SS20.
> >There was also a 24 bit sbus card from a texan company named something
> >like Vipix which I had in an IPX or LX.  Wish I could find one now.
> >cheers -- Rick
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