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In <35BA0E93.5E40835B@palmnet.net> "William M. Johnson, Jr." <wjohnson@palmnet.net> writes:

>What are the various available S-bus color video cards?
>I have an IPX which included a b/w card (don't remember the name) and
>there's a CGSIX included on the motherboard.

>I'm interested in going to a two headed monster (I found out how to
>configure that)
>but I want both monitors to be color.

>It would help to know what cards I can use.

Ok, the cg6 on the motherboard is an 8-bit vector-accelerated colour
framebuffer. You can buy Sbus cg6's in both single and dual-slot versions,
but I don't recommend the 2-slot ones as they're older and use a lot more
power than the single-slot variants.

If you're interested in a cheaper colour framebuffer, look for an Sbus cg3,
which is a basic non-accelerate 8-bit colour framebuffer. This can be used
to replace the mono framebuffer you have now.

If you are going to run X-windows, OpenWindows, or some other type of
graphical user interface on the machine once you have it set up for
two-headed operation, you're better going with with the Sbus cg6 instead of
the cg3 since it's a *lot* faster with line drawing, and other related
operations, than a cg3, and you need all the performance you can get at a
reasonable cost.

Regards,

Craig.

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