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From: Craig Dewick
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 00:00

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Pooya Woodcock <pwoodcock3@home.com> writes:

>        i recently obtained 2 sparcstation 20s (SuperSparc II chips).
>One has SX graphics, the other TurboGX. Does TurboGX display 24 bit
>color? or only SX? Is it a good idea that I take out the TurboGX, and
>stick with the standard SX?

The turbo-GX (which is an Sbus card) is only provides 8-bit colour video
support. The machine with the SX will have a VSIMM fitted to the motherboard
which enables the SX hardware that's native to the SS-20 motherboards.
Without a VSIMM the SX is inoperative and is not even recognised by the
bootROM firmware.

If the machine which have the turbo-GX fitted also has a VSIMM, just remove
the turbo-GX card and then the SX will be used as the main display device.
If it doesn't have a VSIMM fitted, you'll need to obtain one.

Regards,

Craig.
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