IBM RS/6000

[Richard]

In article <43E209BD.3050404 at gmail.com>,
    Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>  writes:

> Richard wrote:
> > In article <a06200712c00763f28f65@[192.168.1.199]>,
> >     "Zane H. Healy" <healyzh at aracnet.com>  writes:
> > 
> >>Personally all the ones I've seen with a graphics display, had pretty 
> >>poor 8-bit graphics.  But then the Sun's of that era tended to be 
> >>8-bit as well.
> > 
> > Well, you could get an E&S Freedom accelerator for it :-) [...]
> 
> That's not the only one.  There were the POWER GXT series.  Some of the 
> 3D ones had quite a bit of speed.

Oh yes, I didn't mean to imply the Freedom was the only beefy 3D card
for it.  I know IBM had their own 3D pipe around that time (1992) that
they had for it.  However, since I worked on the Freedom, its kinda
dear to me :-).

Speaking of Freedoms, if anyone comes across host interface cards or
host software for Freedom accelerators, no matter what the host bus --
HP, Sun, IBM -- please let me know!  I've got some accelerators here,
but no host adapters or software.
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