[SunRescue] can I repost your mails?

[Paul Khoury]

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 13:37:03 -0800 (PST), James Lockwood wrote:


>If they are the GT Graphics Towers, they are in 3-slot VME chassis similar
>to the 4/110's (but with better ventilation).  3D acceleration is provided
>by an i860XP, the whole mess was originally sold to connect to a SS2 or
>SS10 (LSI rev B) via a special sbus card and cable.  They should work on
>any other sun4m box except the 4/600, though. 
>
>Should run under SunOS 4.1.3 or later using Sun-supplied openwin, or
>Solaris 2.3-2.4.  It provides 1280x1024 in 24bpp and is tolerably fast at
>linedrawing but very slow for blitting bitmaps.  I had one on my SS2
>running 2.4 for a while with an IBM 6091/19 monitor.
>
>3D acceleration is XGL only.  If you have XGL apps (some of the ones on
>the Ultra Pluspack work well) and a fast CPU it's not a bad performer for
>shaded polys.
>
>If they don't have the card and cable then don't even touch it unless you
>just want the VME chassis.  They're difficult to find seperately.

So I'm assuming the chassis can be used for a regular VMEbus system as well?
I'd like to replace the case for my 3/75, as my original 3/75's powersupply went south, even
with plenty of free air flow.

Paul