[rescue] Re: Minor auction treasure. Sun 670MP - 690MP(?)

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 24 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:

> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:53:44PM +0100, Chris Powell wrote:
> >
> > Another thing the 'transistor radio' speaker box will work with is the
> > ISDN SBus card (it's got the same DBRI chip as a SS10/LX). I've got such
> > a set-up in a SPARCserver 1000e and can play Quake with audio ;)

You can also use them to add additional audio ports to a machine that
already has one.  I had one in a SS20 when I ran doubleX to provide
separate "seats" for 2 people at once (2
mice/keyboards/monitors/speakers).

> Quake on a SS1k?  Wow.  Wouldn't have expected that to work.  Are you using
> one of those fujitsu boards, or just software rendering?

Quake on SPARC always uses software rendering (except for an XIL scaling
boost).  No available framebuffers could do textured OpenGL at a fast
enough speed to be useful until very recently.

-James