21 Apr
2005
21 Apr
'05
5:52 p.m.
On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 23:39 +0000, Michael Sokolov wrote:
Hello fellow ClassicCmp'ers,
In my search for a good X terminal I have played some more with the
available options.
Do you need audio at all? Just something that wasn't mentioned on your
list. I'm not sure what the remote options are for audio when the app is
actually on a server somewhere. Worth bearing in mind though.
My tentative PowerPC CPU choice is MPC8250.
Does that need a cooling fan?
Now there is only one thing remaining for which I seek
advice from the great
collective wisdom here: what should I use for the video chip? Being the
recluse that I am, I know virtually nothing about modern video technology.
Out of modern, readily-available PCI video chips, what do you think would
be the most appropriate for a reasonable XFree86 server? As a ballpark
I'm looking for 24 bits per pixel colour (I don't want to be limited by
the colour map) and a resolution comparable to DEC's best offerings at
tne height of the VAXstation era. It would have to be PCI; whether I go
with the MPC8250 CPU or something else, it'll definitely have PCI but
not AGP.
Matrox PCI boards of a few years ago were always nice and supported some
decent resolutions (plus IIRC they'd do sync-on-green too). I think they
had 4MB on board and would take a 4MB daughterboard, so would do
1600x1200 res at 24bpp.
The fact that most (all?) xterms seem to be 8 bitters always was a big
stumbling block as otherwise it's really nice having a diskless client
on your desk :)
cheers
J.