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Article #3200Re: Frame Buffer Confusion...
From: Tom Trebisky
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 1997 00:00
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In article <5g54rt$8u8@godzilla.zeta.org.au>, Craig Dewick <craig@zeta.org.au> wrote: >In <5g4tt1$dk6@shocker.gi.net> jeff@gi.net (Jeff McCombs) writes: > >> As a recent newbie to the sparc hardware arena, I was wondering if >>someone could provide me with either a pointer or a list of the different >>types of frame buffers avalible and what their difference are (i.e. color >>depth, refresh rates, resolution, etc). > >To start with, take a look at the Sun Hardware Reference which is >compiled by James Birdsall. It's available for FTP from ftp.picarefy.com >in /pub/Sun-Hardware-Ref. This is both a godsend and an irritation at different times. It is particularly lacking in the area of framebuffer information. At times I have been tempted to tackle the job of reorganizing the whole thing -- it just begs for hypertext, eh? Mr. Birdsall, are you out there? If so thanks for your work, and how do you feel about people mutating your FAQ into a sun-hardware web page? Tom -- Tom Trebisky Steward Observatory ttrebisky@as.arizona.edu University of Arizona (520) 621-5135 Tucson, Arizona 85721
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f4671,1ae69aa9c0338be2 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4671,public X-Google-Thread: 10d053,f9692e0a6913fa01 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d053,public From: tom@kofa.as.arizona.edu (Tom Trebisky) Subject: Re: Frame Buffer Confusion... Date: 1997/03/21 Message-ID: <5gucfj$rph@kofa.as.arizona.edu> X-Deja-AN: 227300948 References: <5g4tt1$dk6@shocker.gi.net> <5g54rt$8u8@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Organization: Steward Observatory, Tucson, Arizona Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware,aus.computers.sun