GT interface card with SS5?

[Richard-45]

Does anyone know if you can use the GT (graphics tower) Sbus interface
card with a SPARCstation 5?  The GT's contemporary would be an SS1 or
SS2.

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[Jonathan Katz-2]

sbus is sbus, but what OS/driver support is there? The old docs from JPL
talk about the GT on the SS10. Seems like OpenBSD/sparc may "just work" ..
SUNW droped support for the GT in Solaris 2.5, according to the JPL docs.

http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/install/sparcgraphics.html
http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html

On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Richard <legalize@...> wrote:

> Does anyone know if you can use the GT (graphics tower) Sbus interface
> card with a SPARCstation 5?  The GT's contemporary would be an SS1 or
> SS2.
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[Richard-45]

In article <3b936930906260825m2e9ed535nc4636220dd3c3a96@...>,
    "Jonathan J. M. Katz" <jon@...>  writes:

> sbus is sbus, but what OS/driver support is there?

Well, until now I just had the tower and no host interface.  Now there's
a source for a host interface, so I'm wondering if the host I have will
work with it.  Next will be to get a cable between the two and then
finally will be software...
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[Lionel Peterson-2]

Sun SS5's have a lot of limitations, if you want an SS20 or SS10 (at  
actual shipping cost) drop me a note...

SS5's max out at 256M, SS10 and SS20 go to 512M, and support more, and  
faster, CPUs... Might make for more enjoyable tinkering.

Lionel

On Jun 26, 2009, at 11:25 AM, "Jonathan J. M. Katz" <jon@...>  
wrote:

> sbus is sbus, but what OS/driver support is there? The old docs from  
> JPL
> talk about the GT on the SS10. Seems like OpenBSD/sparc may "just  
> work" ..
> SUNW droped support for the GT in Solaris 2.5, according to the JPL  
> docs.
>
> http://www-mipl.jpl.nasa.gov/install/sparcgraphics.html
> http://www.openbsd.org/sparc.html
>
> On Fri, Jun 26, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Richard <legalize@...>  
> wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if you can use the GT (graphics tower) Sbus  
>> interface
>> card with a SPARCstation 5?  The GT's contemporary would be an SS1 or
>> SS2.
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[Richard-45]

In article <F7F92FE1-C1D7-4D53-976E-7410909AB935@...>,
    Lionel Peterson <lionel4287@...>  writes:

> Sun SS5's have a lot of limitations, if you want an SS20 or SS10 (at  
> actual shipping cost) drop me a note...
>
> SS5's max out at 256M, SS10 and SS20 go to 512M, and support more, and  
> faster, CPUs... Might make for more enjoyable tinkering.

I picked up an SS5 locally for $5.  The price was right :-).  It also
has a GPIB board in it, which is unusual.  It included the usual keyboard,
mouse and optical mousepad.  At this point, I'm more interested in
just seeing if I can get the GT to work.  Maybe at some point I will
look into getting a better SS, but my focus is on graphics.  And yes,
I know the GT is a shitty graphics system :-).  But it was free and
even shitty graphics systems have a place in my museum.
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[der Mouse-3]

> I picked up an SS5 locally for $5.  The price was right :-).  It also
> has a GPIB board in it, which is unusual.

Lucky sod!  (I've seen exactly one SBus GPIB board.)

> And yes, I know the GT is a shitty graphics system :-).

Depends on what you want.  It's fine if you're not asking anything
particular taxing of it.  (Of course, that may be covered by what you
meant!)

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[SPC-3]

Someone could provide me with one real diskette or diskimage (or even one
backup tape) of Xenix 3.2f for the Altos 686 or 886 ? The Xenix kernel
appears to be contamined and the backup too.

I agree it a lot, sincerely.

Regards
Sergio
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