18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
8:08 p.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, r. 'bear' stricklin wrote:
Actually, the card was designed to do CAD on the first generation of
RS/6000's. PS/2 support was added (barely) as an afterthought.
Peace... Sridhar
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
Indeed.
speaking of old SGIs...did any of them use
microchannel?
Nope. Multibus, VME, GIO, XIO, EISA, PCI.. never MCA. The reason I
ask is that I have an old (1987 or '88, I think),
SGI-branded 2-board video adapter that plugs into 2 MCA slots. The
only other things I can imagine it might be for are an RS/6k, but that
seems doubtful, or a PS/2 or some such PC thing, which seems even less
likely...
Guess what? It's for a PS/2.
What you have is an IRISVISION display adapter. Check out Louis Ohland's
"9595 Ardent Tool of Capitalism" page.