Re: Installation of 20020415-current snapshot

Hi there,

>There were actually 3D graphics accellerators for HP9000 series 400?
>Wow. Those must have been _really_ expensive.
These beasts were more or less CAD workstations - so there was definitely a market for expensive 3D hardware.

>> Because these beasts were rather expensive there weren't much, so it's unsupported. 
>> btw. even some supported framebuffers are external ( think gatorbox... )
>Oh, I didn't know that. I thought they were all internal boards. I
>have only 8bit and 1bit internal boards, and I heard there were 24bit
>framebuffers, but I've never seen one.
Yea, I only have a 6bit Catseye and a 1bit Topcat. At least an 8bit board would be nice since lots of programs choke on 8 bits per pixel but only 64 
color cells.

have fun
Michael