[rescue] Re: News from the Sun Front: Graphics

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2002 at 11:17:16PM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, George Adkins wrote:
> 

These FC-AL drives are attached directly, is that correct?  You don't
need a switch fabric or whatever it is called to hook it up?  That in
itself is nice.
 
> > Oh Boy! it uses creepy proprietary 232 pin SDRAM not-DIMMs, so all the 128 
> > Meg 200 pin Ultra memory I already have is Useless!  Yay!
> 
> I bet all the 30 pin memory you have is Useless too. Maybe it's time to
> build a simmstacker to preserve your investment?

Sun could have gone with DDR RAM.  By simply interleaving memory
access they could have ended up with very high memory bandwidth while
making it far easier for their customers.  I have not been able to
find out the memory b/w on this system from looking at sun.com.
 
And why no Gig ethernet?  Even Apple G4's have GigE!

./patrick