Hidden Mono Frame Buffer in Sun IPC?

Ken Stamm slhisc!ken at marob.masa.com
Mon Oct 8 07:30:00 AEST 1990


Does Sun advertise the fact that SPARCStation IPCs (a.k.a. 4/40) come with
a monochrome frame buffer and 13W3 video connector right on the
motherboard, IN ADDITION TO THE S-BUS COLOR FRAME BUFFER?!?! (:  (:  (:

They advertise the IPC as a color workstation either with a 200MB disk
($9995) or diskless ($8995), including Color Frame Buffer and monitor.

They don't seem to sell it without the CFB, though.  Wonder why...

If all you need is monochrome, and you want 2 free S-Bus slots (:, just
pull out the CFB, plug a mono monitor into the motherboard video connector
(with suitable adaptors), setenv sbus-probe-list 0312, and voila!  a
sort-of-SLC-with-Sbus-and-disk!

But seriously, though, has anyone with an IPC figured out how to enable
BOTH the CFB and built-in MFB at the same time, thereby making a dual-
headed machine for the mere price of an additional mono monitor?

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