[SunRescue] Wanted: Old Sun propaganda

Kevin Loch rescue at sunhelp.org
Mon May 21 21:50:34 CDT 2001


S24 is technically faster than ZX, but I prefer the ZX.  It offers
higher
resolution and the netscape scrollbar works great on the ZX.  On the
S24 the scrollbar is unusable.

KL

Paul Sladen wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, James Lockwood wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 21 May 2001, Joshua D. Boyd wrote:
> >
> > > The Sparc2 pictures make reference to a Sparc 2, 2GS, and 2GT.  I know
> > > that the 2 uses a GX board, and that the 2GT uses the graphics tower.
> > > What does the 2GS use?  Is a ZX board (although products with the zx seem
> >
> > It uses a GS board, aka cg12.  It only takes 2 sbus slots but is wide
> > enough to cover the third.  24-bit color but slow and unsupported past
> > Solaris 2.4.
> 
> Further to this; my SS5 want really like a 24-bit framebuffer;  what's the
> best to get for it (assuming I can find some):  ZX, S24, or [other] ?
> 
> Cheers,
> Paul
> 
> It has 3 empty sbus slots, since I decided to put 3 NICs in my SS2 instead.
> (Well, it /would/ have, when I take the TGX out ;-)
> 
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