[rescue] SPARCstation 20

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sat Feb 2 12:20:29 CST 2002


On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 12:21:25PM -0500, Brian Hechinger wrote:
>> So then, does this mean that Photoshop/solaris actually used the hardware
>> alpha chanel?  I got the impression that with the exception of some 3210
>> accelerated plugins on the Mac that Photoshop never took advantage of 
>> hardware accleration features.
> 
>from what i remember, photoshop did indeed take advantage of the alpha channel
>on the rasterflex.  i'll have to dig up some of the old marketing info i had
>on the thing.
> 
>>Do they really require an m-bus slot?  That would be real pain since it 
>>means giving up the quad proc goodness.
> 
> why would they require an MBus slot?  they are dual width SBus cards, they
> take two SBus slots.  maybe you are thinking of the dual CPU modules that
> take up an SBus slot.

I though that someone said that the fujitsu boards took an sbus and an mbus.

Although loosing a sbus socket to a dual CPU card also isn't so fun.  What
are you wanting for those fujitsu boards anyway?

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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