[rescue] Framebuffer question

[Lionel Peterson]

--- "William G.Gruesbeck Jr." <bgruesbeck at daysys.com> wrote:
> I have a Sparcstation 10 that I rescued a while
> ago that is configured with 128 mb ram, a TMS390Z50 @ 40MHZ,
> and a cgsix frambuffer.

Sounds good...
 
> Everything works fine, but I would really like to have a
> deeper color depth.

Understandable...
 
> I have looked at the docs on sunhelp.org and I didn't see
> any mention of a 16 bit sbus framebuffer, but the cg8, cg9,
> cg12, & cg14 are all listed as 24 bit color. I was just
> wondering which is recommended?

Dunno - never used any of them...

> Also how much would one cost roughly?

Dunno - costs are all over the board, but I think the rule of thumb is,
that if you think the 24 bit framebuffer is under-priced, you probably
over-estimate it's speed... They are quite slow by anything resembling
current standards.

> Currently, I mainly run progs. from another
> machine since this one seems kinda slow and poky.

I'm confused - are you using the SS/10 as an X Term? If so, you may
want to look for an SS/20 with VSIMM, that will get you deeper color
using some of the same components...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day
http://shopping.yahoo.com