9 Aug
2012
9 Aug
'12
12:15 a.m.
The standard monochrome framebuffer, found in
everything from the
first Sun-2 to desktop SPARCs, and the 386i as well. Standard
resolution is 1152 x 900 and high resolution is 1280 x 1024; other
resolutions (1024 x 1024?) may exist.
I have an sbus bwtwo which is capable of 1600x1280. For a time I used
that as my main head, but the framebuffer has DE9 output, which, while
strictly not very relevant, correlates with its using logic-level video
rather than traditional video. I had one monitor which took that
signal level and was capable of 1600x1280, but it's dimmed into
uselessness. :-(
Not quite where the thread started, since it's SBus rather than VME,
but if we're now discussing "Sun-2 to desktop SPARCs" it might be of
some interest, and there definitely do exist bwtwos with higher
resolution that 1280x1024.
Mouse