Organization: Department of Computer Science, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland
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I've been offered a Sun 386i at what seems a good price, _but_ I'm not familliar with this particular flavour of Sun. I have used both Sun 3 and Sun 4 machines, with SunOS 4.0.3 to 4.1.3, and I'm aware that the 386i is based on Intel 386 hardware, but what I really want to know is just how compatible these machines are, what their limitations/shortcomings are, anything else I should know?..
I want something I can compile pd stuff, especially X11R5, epoch/emacs, gcc, all these sorts of things. I'm aware that the commercially available stuff will be limited/nonexistant, but I don't expect to use that anyway, I just need something BSDish for late night hacking at home..
Also, I have a Sony 19" monitor, similar to the ones supplied by Sun with SPARC's, but it has 5 BNC connectors, RGB Hsync and Vsync. Unfortunately I have no documentation for the monitor, but I know it works (connected to an RT). Can I connect this to a Sun framebuffer? Does anyone have any info on the Sun framebuffer pin designations? Are the framebuffers compatible with all sun machines (ie Sun 386i, 3/60, SPARC1)
Thanks for any help/comments
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