Alan Coopersmith <alanc@alum.calberkeley.org> writes:

> Chris Morgan <cm@mihalis.net> writes in comp.sys.sun.hardware:
> |XVR-1000 is the last product of the Bill Joy reality distortion field,
> |which somehow made Sun think it should design its own graphics chips
> |in the 21st century. Every subsequent Sun graphics card (which I
> |_think_ means every other XVR- device) uses a 3d party chipset (ATI,
> |3dLabs) and is better off for it.
>
> Actually XVR-4000 was the last of those, though I believe it uses the
> same chipset as the XVR-1000, just many more of them. Of course, since
> XVR-4000 can only be plugged into the CPU bus of the V880, it's not
> likely you'll see one unless you're in the really specialized fields it
> was designed for.

Ok, I'll take your word on that. I'm probably showing my bias towards
slightly more mass markets than the ones you refer to. If my customers
aren't using a graphics card in their Solaris workstations, it might
as well not exist for me.

Thanks

Chris
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