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- From: hue@island.COM (Pond Scum)
- Subject: Re: 24-Bit Video for SPARC
- Message-ID: <hue.712432065@coney>
- Sender: usenet@island.COM (The Usenet mail target)
- Organization: Island Graphics Corp.
- References: <1992Jul21.162957.26872@babbage.ece.uc.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 17:47:45 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- montjoy@thor.ece.uc.edu (Robert Montjoy) writes:
- >We are looking for a 24-Bit Sbus Video Card for a Sparc IPX. This
- >card should work with the SUN monitor. This card can only take up
- >2 Sbus slots(preferably 1). The price should be in the $ 3000
- >range.
-
- The only one I know of that is one slot is the VITec RasterFLEX.
-
- > Manu Card Name
- >
- > RasterOps Sparc TC Card
-
- Two slots, won't do 8 & 24 bit simultaneously, slow in 24-bit mode. I dunno
- the price, I think it's around $4k.
-
- > VITec RasterFLEX 32
-
- One slot, does 8 and 24 bit simultaneously, reasonably fast when working in
- 24-bit. It's around $4k also. The only reason we haven't tossed the
- dozen or so RasterOps boards we have is that there is full SunVIEW (yeah, I
- know, I know) support for them, but there is only 8-bit SunVIEW support for
- the VITec.
-
- >RasterOps will not work with the current SUN Monitors. They say
- >the only support 66-HZ monitors. The new SUN monitors are 76-HZ.
-
- Is this true? I think the cg12 from Sun is 76Hz vertical refresh and will
- only work with a monitor that is able to sync to the slightly higher rate,
- but I'm pretty sure we've got a couple of those monitors here working on
- RasterOps boards just fine. So maybe the Sun monitor will sync to the lower
- rate. There is a high-resolution model of the RasterFlex 32 (1280x1024,
- perhaps higher vertical refresh also) which probably requires a special
- monitor.
-
- -Jonathan hue@island.COM
-