[comp.sys.sun] Are there any "true" color SUN 3/260 monitors

Kemp@dockmaster.arpa (01/25/89)

The monitor is irrelevant - if it is a color monitor, it can display 24
bit color.

Sun does sell a 24 bit frame buffer, the CG8.  As of several months ago,
it was only available with the 4/110-TC, but it may become a separate
product at some point.  I don't know if it would be supported in a 3/260,
but I don't see why not.

There is a company called Tech Source in Florida that sells what looks
like a very nice frame buffer with up to 32 bit planes.  See the latest
Sun Technology magazine for their address.

Hope this helps,
 Dave Kemp

chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com (Chuck Musciano) (01/25/89)

All monitors are "true color", it's the frame buffer you are interested.
Most Sun frame buffers are 8 bits deep, but Sun announced a 24 bit true
color version of the Sun-4/110, called the 4/110TC, at SIGGRAPH last year.
It looked pretty good!

Chuck Musciano
Advanced Technology Department
Harris Corporation
(407) 727-6131
ARPA: chuck@trantor.harris-atd.com

zcnj01@uunet.uu.net (Cecil N. Jones) (02/01/89)

kprasad@caip.rutgers.edu (K. Venkatesh Prasad) writes:
>SUN apparently does not sell a true color monitor....

There are several true color options available for the Sun.  Sun supports
the TAAC, and several other companies make systems for the Sun, namely
Raster Technologies, Tech-Source, AT&T Pixel Machines, and Graphicon.  

  Cecil N. Jones    Amoco Production Co.  Tulsa, OK
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