Re: Video Boards for Sun Workstations

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From: Willy Brandsdorfer
Date: Fri, 07 Jun 1991 14:36

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In article <429@salt.bellcore.com> lowery@thumper.bellcore.com (Carlyn M. Lowery) writes:

>   I am interested in doing real-time video display, image capture, and of
>   course, ultimately real-time video compression and decompression on Sun
>   workstations under X11 (MIT's version).  If you have experience with
>   add-on cards for Suns, such as Parallax,  Videopix, or RasterOps, I'd
>   like to hear your thoughts on usability and functionality.  I'm also
>   particularly interested in the programming interfaces.   

The current RasterOps board works only under sunview and not under X. There is
proported to be beta version however. I believe Videopix is little more than a
digitizer. Although I haven't seen anything from parallax recently, their stuff
has traditionally blown me away (reads excellent), and it cost the most ~7,000.

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Subject: Re: Video Boards for Sun Workstations
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