[rescue] Vsimm

[James Lockwood]

On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Shawn Wallbridge wrote:

> So just curious what kind of accelleration a 4MB VSIMM provides on an
> SS20? I read some Sun doc's and they talked about the accelleration, but
> I'm wondering how noticable it is. I think I will be happy with just the
> 24bit color.

It's probably the fastest 24bpp framebuffer available for a pre-Ultra in
blitting performance.  The available bandwidth to VRAM is far superior to
Sbus alternatives.

Note that Sun's OpenGL will use a software pipeline.  Don't expect any
performance miracles in 3D.

> I picked up a SS20 motherboard and it came with a 4MB VSIMM, 3x16MB
> Memory and a 10mb/SCSI card (all for $10 :-).

That's a deal!

-James