[rescue] Looking : Sgi/Sun stuff

[Joshua Boyd]

On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 10:15:23AM -0400, Carl R. Friend wrote:
>    On Fri, 24 Jun 2005, Bill Bradford wrote:
> 
> > I finally got rid of my last CRT (at work; I got rid of all my CRTs at 
> > home when I moved six months ago).  When Dell 17" ES173FP flat panels
> > are $225 or less, it's hard not to..
> 
>    How well do those work at oddball resolutions (1184x884, for
> instance)?  I hang tenaciously to my CRTs because they get used on
> all sorts of kit (Sun, SGI, Intergraph, IBM, DEC, &c.) and can do
> true multi-sunch and multi-resolution seamlessly.  Do I no longer
> need to do that?

Do all your CRTs get used on a wide variety?  I wouldn't recommend
tossing all your CRTS, but you might have a few locations where the only
machines connected to that display can be set to be the same, then keep
CRTs for the others.