[Irinikus]

Oh, that's an interesting paper! Do you have a complete PDF somewhere?

And, at least in your case, the 4D60T lost its price-performance-advantage versus the Indigo 2 High Impact in our time...

You win some and loose some, what can I say!!!! (My card cost me almost as much as my entire MAX IMPACT machine did!!!!)

Here's the link to the PDF: https://www.hpl.hp.com/hpjournal/dtj/vol...m4art4.pdf

It does transform the AlphaStation into quite a capable machine, which is awesome!

[sgt_barnes]

Thank you, mate!

I've added it to my graphics architecture paper collection!

[Irinikus]

Cool!

[sgt_barnes]

Hi everybody,

For an impression of how well this graphics adapter is working with modern displays, please see the attached image.

The machine is a 164SX with 21164PC@533MHz with 256 MB RAM, and the 4D60T is powering the display with 1920x1080@75.

That is easiliy one of the most effective investments of my retro-computing career (with the probable exception of my Octane).

[TruHobbyist]

Cool :O

[Irinikus]

Here are some pictures showing a 4D60T with a Lynx II geometry accelerator card:





So I'm still hoping that I can pair the baby with mine:



Here is the document showing that the Lynx 4 can be paired with the ZX25 and VX25 cards, which are basically the same thing: (Higher clocks though!)



Here the 4D60T is paired with a geometry card inside a DEC machine, so the driver must support it:

M/b: API Networks UP2000+
CPU: 2x Alpha 21264A (EV67) 666MHz
RAM: 2Gb PC100 ECC (8 x 256Mb DIMM)
HDD: 73Gb Seagate Cheetah 15.5k rpm 8Mb cache UltraSCSI-320
Video: DEC PowerStorm 4D60T + Intergraph Lynx II
Net: DEC DE504-BA

[sgt_barnes]

Let's cross fingers that it works in your machine.

The only problem I see is that the NT driver might not support it. The EV67 - as far as I can tell - cannot run NT.

If the information in the paper is correct and the Lynx 4 is from before the year 2000, we might be lucky, though.

Otherwise we might need to use VMS or something.

[Geoman]

Realizm... now I get why my 3Dlabs Wildcat 800 looks so similar to these boards - 3Dlabs bought a part of Intergraph

[Irinikus]

Quake II performance on a DEC AlphaStation 255 300 with 4D60T graphics:

[TruHobbyist]

Thanks for the video, Irinikus.