[rescue] Ultra?

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:49:09AM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 09:09:00AM -0400, robert brooke gravitt wrote:
> > Let me annoy you just a bit further: What's the scoop on the Sun Blade 100?
> > It looks like a nice little cheap workstation. I'm sure the U 30 would kick
> > the crap out of it, but I do have a lot of FireWire storage (nearly 1 TB)
> > and it's got 1394 ports.
> 
> The only Firewire peripheral supported on the Blade 100 so far (AFAIK) is a
> webcam.  Firewire storage is not supported (yet) that I know of.

I thought they supported DV also, although I can't find any reference
to this on their site, which is too bad.  A SB100 with an XVR500, or
anything other that the P somethingsomething 64, and a firewire to
video bridge of some sort would seem to make a nice lowend
workstation, but it doesn't appear that the firewire support is there
(although for very large amounts of money it does look like analog
video capture and SDI capture are available).
 
> I'd go with the U30 and a nice fast framebuffer.  The only real advantage of
> the SB100 is cheap RAM and drives.

I'd go with the U30, period.  Firewire cards can be added, I would
imagine, and so you still will be taken care of if firewire storage is
ever supported.

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Joshua D. Boyd