The SUN Microsystems XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator
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Re: The SUN Microsystems XVR-4000 Graphics Accelerator
<QUOTE author="heavyfuel" post_id="2188" time="1533937352" user_id="313">
heavyfuel post_id=2188 time=1533937352 user_id=313 Wrote:When you get this running, some benchmarks against Geforce/Radeon/Quadro/FireGL of the same era would be interesting!

...unless it's difficult to carry out, which I guess it is.

It’s up and running, but at the moment, all can do is click around in Solaris, as I haven’t got any decent software for it yet!

Maybe it would be a good idea to try and make contact with, Mr Michael Frank Deering, the person who created this monstrosity, to see if he cannot supply me with a demo for it?

This might be easier said than done though!

The big problem here is that SUN was never really into graphical hardware, so there’s no commercial graphical software available for it, such as Maya and the like!

This machine is an interesting piece of hardware, but only serves as a table for my monitor for now! (A machine is nothing without good software.) It makes a great table though! Smile
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