fangchin@elaine54.Stanford.EDU (Chin Fang) (05/06/91)
Hello, Having worked on my RS6000 320 heavily lately, I now really wish my 5081 16 Trinitron (R) monitor had a higher screen refresh rate. I don't have any spec of it, just eyeball the thing I would guess it's being updated around 54HZ, not an outstanding value to say the least. Obviously IBM Austin Div. has developed a line of really fine machines, my 320's lively floating point point performance handily beats my SPARC 2 for the same job by at least four times! (Honestly I was quite delightfully surprised!). Why not put in a circuit capable of offering higher horizontal scanning rate (like 65Khz) and raise the monitor refresh rate to > 70Hz like Sun's implementation for it's SPARC series? Same fine Trinitron (R), superior fp performance, but a flickering monitor really hurts. Now I put a SPARC 1+ next to my 320 and rlogin in my 320 most of the time from my SUN SPARC. Is it possible to get a monitor with higher refresh rate from IBM? If not, does IBM plan to offer something better in the near future? Chin Fang Mechanical Engineering Department Stanford University fangchin@leland.stanford.edu