[Sunhelp] Recommendation on a Frame Buffer and Monitor

[Jonathan Eisch]

Yeah.  Sorry 'bout that.

I was using a GX+ for a while.  It had pretty good speed, but I needed the 24bit
for the graphic design that I do.  The 24bit is not very fast at all, which you
will notice if you open and close a lot of windows.  I guess it is just a matter of
preference.

Bill Bradford wrote:

> On Sun, Jul 18, 1999 at 04:34:30PM -0500, Jonathan Eisch wrote:
> > I use a SS5 at home.  And I think it's great for user type applications (gimp,
> > netscape, staroffice...).  I think that it is a bit 'zippier' with these type
> > applications than a SS20.  That maybe just me.  But I'm rather sure I have a
> > TGX+ in my 5 and it's a 24bit.
> > -Jonathan
>
> The TGX+ is a 4mb 8bit card, the TCX is the slow 24bit card that uses the AFX
> bus.
>
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> Bill Bradford * mrbill at sunhelp.org * http://www.sunhelp.org
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> >From a Sun Microsystems bug report (#4102680):
> "Workaround: don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey."
>
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