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From: abstine@image.soe.clarkson.edu (Arthur Stine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec,comp.unix.ultrix
Subject: Re: 3100 mix and match
Message-ID: <1989Nov28.191803.18970@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>
Date: 28 Nov 89 19:18:03 GMT
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From article <8732@cbmvax.UUCP>, by grr@cbmvax.UUCP (George Robbins):
> Uh...  If I have a color VAXstation 3100 and a monochrome DECstation 3100,
> can I somehow swap the display controller components and get me a color
> PMAX and and monochrome PVAX?  Monochrome at this kind of low resolution
> is such a sad joke in this day and age...
> 
Uh... no... the PMAX and PVAX use a completely different frame buffer, the
pVAXes (color) being a GPX processor and the PMAX being a dumb color or
monochrome frame buffer driven by the CPU. I don't think DEC has an upgrade
option for the PMAX to upgrade from mono to color even. 


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Art Stine
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Clarkson U
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