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- From: pjharris@gallua.gallaudet.edu
- Subject: Re: 13" RGB or Ethernet card via SCSI port SE/30. Which is best ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.091913.1@gallua.gallaudet.edu>
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- Organization: Gallaudet University
- References: <1992Sep03.091800.15024@kub.nl>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 14:19:13 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep03.091800.15024@kub.nl>, egon@kub.nl (Egon Verharen) writes:
- > Dear Mac goeroes,
- >
- > This is more a question about experiences than solutions.
- > We have the following problem:
- > We would like to connect a 13" RGB monitor to a SE/30,
- > however, the PDS slot of the SE/30 is already filled
- > by an Ethernet Card.
- >
- > I have heard of the following solutions:
- > - Connect the color monitor through the SCSI port of the SE/30
- > (I believe this solution is called SCSI-Graph, or something like that)
- > or
- > - connect the ethernet via the SCSI port and put the color card
- > in the SE/30.
- >
- > It is said :-) that the second solution is the most reliable, however
- > the ethernet working will be slower.
- > In price the solutions are almost the same. Around Dhfl. 1900,-
- > (that is around $1175.-) in the Netherlands.
- >
- > My question now is:
- > Has anyone experience with connecting either a color
- > monitor or the ethernet via SCSI (or maybe even both) ??
- >
- > Many thanks in advance, and if a get some good replies by
- > personal email (in stead of in these newsgroups) I will
- > ofcourse summarise to the net.
- >
- >
- > ** Egon M. Verharen **
- > Institute for Language Technology
- > internet: egon@kub.nl and Artificial Intelligence (ITK)
- > P.O.BOX 90153
- > phone: (+31) (13) 662767 5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands
- > fax: (+31) (13) 663069
- >
- >
-
- I have seen the SCSI-Graph in action. If you're not too concerned with screen
- re-draw speed, then it's a pretty good choice (passing QDvideo blocks down
- the SCSI path will always be slower than a dedicated video processor). I don't
- have any experience with SCSI based E-net products, only bus/dedicated systems.
-
- Patrick
-