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jason andrade wrote:
> i'd get the C3D card anyway, since the 8 bit gfx is on the motherboard
> (not a card) on both the u10 and u5

That's true on the Sun machines, but the Apcom clone I mentioned has no
motherboard graphics (neither do most of the other clones). This, plus
the inclusion of UltraWide SCSI, are the two major differences between
the motherboard designs (AXi vs U5/U10).

The AXi motherboard used by most of the clones is actually a Sun design,
see http://www.sun.com/microelectronics/SPARCengineUltraAXi/ for details.
In all respects it is a better design than the U5/U10 motherboard, which
makes me wonder why Sun didn't use it for the U5/U10.

Most clones bundle an 8-bit PGX PCI card by default, but almost everyone
would agree that the PGX is a poor choice compared to a Creator3D, or
even compared to a decent ATI card.


JASON PATTERSON
 jason@pattosoft.com.au  http://www.pattosoft.com.au/jason

 Imagine that CRAY decides to make a personal computer. It contains 16
 Alpha based processors executing in parallel, has 800 megabytes of RAM,
 9 Gigabytes of disk storage, a resolution of 4096 x 4096 pixels, does
 24bit 3D graphics in realtime, relies entirely on voice recognition for
 input, fits in your shirt pocket and costs $300. What is the first
 question the computer community asks?

 "Is it DOS compatible?"