[rescue] FS/FT: RS/6000 42T

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:46:35PM -0800, Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2002, Julius Sridhar wrote:
> 
> > 
> > You mean the SGI Irisvision MCA?  Not just a large part, those boards were
> > completely designed and fabbed by SGI, labelled by IBM, and sold by IBM.
> > They will also work in PS/2's.  I am in the process of writing an XFree86
> > Server for them.  There are better cards out there for RS/6000's, but not
> > for PS/2's.
> 
> These boards are pretty much equivalent to the Personal Iris 24bit
> Graphics boards (w/o the turbo option). The same GE/RE combo... IBM was
> actually one of the few licesees of the GL graphics library. I used to
> have an R6K/520 with one of these boards, but AIX 3.5 (I think) would not
> run X at 24bpp, just 8bpp depths... which was a waste.

Back then, wasn't it common to run X on overlay planes at 4 or 8bits, while
the frame buffer was still at 24bit?  I know that HP did this.  I just
don't really know about others since that is reaching back to a time that
it is hard to find information.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd