18 Dec
2001
18 Dec
'01
10:17 a.m.
-----Original Message-----
From: r. 'bear' stricklin [mailto:red@bears.org]
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.
I have just such a board that was a pull from an RS/6000. I wasn't aware
that many of them sold for use in PS/2. In fact, their use in the machines
(IIRC) was originally just for testing purposes because they booted faster
than the RS/6000s ;)
Nice board. Wish I could do something with it (Like get an rs/6000 and
software to drive it!) :)
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
18 Dec
18 Dec
10:48 a.m.
Christopher Smith said:
I have just such a board that was a pull from an RS/6000. I wasn't aware
that many of them sold for use in PS/2. In fact, their use in the machines
(IIRC) was originally just for testing purposes because they booted faster
than the RS/6000s ;)
Nice board. Wish I could do something with it (Like get an rs/6000 and
software to drive it!) :)
hmmm...I'd only need the latter :) anyone have any idea where I could find
it? might the drivers come with AIX 4.3.2? I sort of doubt it, but you never
know...
Regards,
Chris
Christopher Smith, Perl Developer
Amdocs - Champaign, IL
/usr/bin/perl -e '
print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl
Hacker.")."\x08!\n");
'
- Dan Wright
(dtwright(a)uiuc.edu)
(http://www.uiuc.edu/~dtwright)
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11:53 a.m.
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Dan Wright wrote:
The only double- and triple-board MCA adapters I know AIX ever directly
supported were the "Sabine" 24-plane cards. They were reputedly, in
software and hardware design, a horrible kludge. IBM dropped support
like a hot rock with v4.
I'm pretty sure they weren't made or designed by SGI. I do know I've
been into several 7012-series RS6ks that had PS/2 graphics boards in
them. No way they ever worked; somebody had tried them & never bothered
to pull 'em when it didn't work.
I have at least one Sabine adapter around anybody's welcome to. If
you're running pre-v4 AIX, it might be cool. Also a grayscale (1-1) MCA
adapter. Also several GXT150 boards for the 7011-250 pizza boxes. Also
cable info for the GXT150 & GXT500 adapters.
Doc
Nice board.
Wish I could do something with it (Like get an rs/6000 and
software to drive it!) :)
hmmm...I'd only need the latter :) anyone have any idea where I could find
it? might the drivers come with AIX 4.3.2? I sort of doubt it, but you never
know... 
6:02 p.m.
The IrisVision is one of the few boards that will do RS6000 or PS/2.
Chad Fernandez
Michigan, USA
Christopher Smith wrote:
-----Original Message-----
From: r. 'bear' stricklin [mailto:red@bears.org]
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.
I have just such a board that was a pull from an RS/6000. I wasn't aware
that many of them sold for use in PS/2. In fact, their use in the machines
(IIRC) was originally just for testing purposes because they booted faster
than the RS/6000s ;)
Nice board. Wish I could do something with it (Like get an rs/6000 and
software to drive it!) :)
Regards,
Chris 
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