[SunHELP] ZX or SX in SS20

[James Lockwood]

On Fri, 23 Mar 2001, Eric Randall wrote:

> I just got this SS20 from ebay.  Now no mention was made of framebuffer
> in the description, but it showed up with an on board SX but no
> VSIMM(s), but it did have a ZX in it as well (looks like a raft).   I
> intend to use it simply as a writing and general use desktop machine,
> but I'd like to have 24 bit color in any case.  Which would give me the
> best general use performance, and if its the SX, does anyone want to
> trade something for the ZX?  Thanks.

The SX, definitely.  The ZX is not officially supported in recent Solaris
revs and is slower for more 24bpp ops.  It might have a slight performance
edge in XGL 3D apps, but these are few and far between in this day and
age.

-James