Re: IPX framebuffer refresh rates

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> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 10:00:19 -0700
> From: "r.stricklin" <[email protected]>
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> Subject: Re: [Suns-at-Home] IPX framebuffer refresh rates
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> On Aug 18, 2011, at 8:47 AM, Charles Lindsey wrote:

>> I presume they are NOT 13W3 in that case. They were whatever was  
>> originally supplied for a Sun 3/50 (though one of them was actually a  
>> 3/60, so it has a freestanding base).
>
> It is a 13W3 in that case, but it isn't a BW2. The sbus analog  
> monochrome framebuffer is an MG1. There was also a MG4, P4 bus version.  
> The SUN digital monochrome video (ECL or TTL) as found on a multibus or  
> VME bus always has a DE9.
>
> Sun's framebuffer names are designed for maximum confusion anyway, so  
> the MG1 and MG4 share the same software interface as the bwtwo (and show  
> up in the OS as /dev/bwtwo), along with the monochrome overlay plane of  
> the CG4, etc.

Well I have certainly run these monitors on a BW2  which came as part of a  
Sparstation 1+ (but I gave the BW2 away along with the Sparcstation).

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