From owner-freebsd-sparc Mon Jan 19 23:58:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA13584 for sparc-outgoing; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from news1.gtn.com (news1.gtn.com [194.77.0.15]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA13571 for ; Mon, 19 Jan 1998 23:58:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by news1.gtn.com (8.8.6/8.8.6) with UUCP id IAA16614; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:45:14 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) id IAA24227; Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:44:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Message-ID: <19980120084445.07245@klemm.gtn.com> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 08:44:45 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Murray Stokely Cc: Wes Peters , sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ultra 5 workstation announcement References: <34C2D187.7E3F3713@xmission.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88 In-Reply-To: ; from Murray Stokely on Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:15:24PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Jan 18, 1998 at 10:15:24PM -0800, Murray Stokely wrote: > > The 4500rpm IDE disk doesn't bother me as much as the measly 8bit graphics Yeah ;-) > Its definately a step in the right direction though! I wonder if we > can expect cheaper clones in the coming months? One should contact suns marketing gurus, that they should offer 24 Bit graphic cards as a standard (who can really live with 8 Bit color depth if I look at window managers like afterstep and applications like xv, gimp, xpaint, Netscape, ... ) and Ultra SCSI controller / drives as an option. Does somebody have a good contact to them ? Andreas /// -- Andreas Klemm powered by ,,symmetric multiprocessor FreeBSD''