In article <@mooli.org.uk>,
Shirker <shirker (AT) mooli (DOT) org.ukwrites:
A large box full of SBUS cards. There are a few I'll be keeping, but
the rest of the crate is up for grabs. It's largely network, SCSI and
graphics cards. You can't have the box, sorry, just its contents ;)
Being a graphics freak, I'm interested in any graphics cards for Suns
:-).
By chance, do any of them do 3D? I don't think Sun ever shipped a
workstation with 3D in the base configuration -- IIRC, you had to buy
an upgraded card to get hardware accelerated 3D. Things may be
different now, I haven't tracked Sun HW configs since the early 90s.

Richard wrote:
In article <@mooli.org.uk>,
Shirker <shirker (AT) mooli (DOT) org.ukwrites:


>>A large box full of SBUS cards. There are a few I'll be keeping, but
>>the rest of the crate is up for grabs. It's largely network, SCSI and
>>graphics cards. You can't have the box, sorry, just its contents ;)

Being a graphics freak, I'm interested in any graphics cards for Suns
:-).

By chance, do any of them do 3D? I don't think Sun ever shipped a
workstation with 3D in the base configuration -- IIRC, you had to buy
an upgraded card to get hardware accelerated 3D. Things may be
different now, I haven't tracked Sun HW configs since the early 90s.

Both U10s and U30s were available in "Creator3D" models complete with a
spiffy molded logo attached to the front of the case.

Mon, 16 Jan 2006 14:54:02 -0500, Phil Stracchino
<phil.stracchino (AT) speakeasy (DOT) netwrote:

Richard wrote:
>In article <@mooli.org.uk>,
>Shirker <shirker (AT) mooli (DOT) org.ukwrites:
>>
>>
A large box full of SBUS cards. There are a few I'll be keeping, but
the rest of the crate is up for grabs. It's largely network, SCSI and
graphics cards. You can't have the box, sorry, just its contents ;)
>>
>>
>Being a graphics freak, I'm interested in any graphics cards for Suns
>:-).
>>
>By chance, do any of them do 3D? I don't think Sun ever shipped a
>workstation with 3D in the base configuration -- IIRC, you had to buy
>an upgraded card to get hardware accelerated 3D. Things may be
>different now, I haven't tracked Sun HW configs since the early 90s.
>
Both U10s and U30s were available in "Creator3D" models complete with a
spiffy molded logo attached to the front of the case.
--

Ditto for the Ultra 1 and Ultra 2. I have an Ultra 2 Creator3D running
Solaris 10, but I haven't had a chance to try anything 3D on the
Creator3D. From what I've heard about the Creator3D, it doesn't have much
memory on it, so I'm probably not going to be running GLQuake on it. Plus
the GL subsystem in Solaris was something you had to pay for, and I'm
running Solaris 10 on the Free RTU license. Then again, Sun opened up
their development tools for download last I heard.

Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:54:02PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
Both U10s and U30s were available in "Creator3D" models complete with a
spiffy molded logo attached to the front of the case.

As were Ultra 1s and Ultra 2s, AFAIK. I'm looking at a pile of U2s with
"Ultra 2 Creator 3D" front logos right now.

Bill

Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 03:03:00PM -0500, Bryan Gurney wrote:
Plus
the GL subsystem in Solaris was something you had to pay for, and I'm
running Solaris 10 on the Free RTU license.

Huh? I've *never* paid for GL on Solaris. I was downloading and
installing it for free on a SS10 with a ZX board back in '98!

Note "Free Download". AFAIK its always been a free download.

BIll

Bill Bradford wrote:
Mon, Jan 16, 2006 at 02:54:02PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:

>>Both U10s and U30s were available in "Creator3D" models complete with a
>>spiffy molded logo attached to the front of the case.

As were Ultra 1s and Ultra 2s, AFAIK. I'm looking at a pile of U2s with
"Ultra 2 Creator 3D" front logos right now.

Yeah, U10 and U30 were just the first two that came to mind.