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From: de5@stc06.ctd.ornl.gov (SILL D E)
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Subject: Re: New Sun IPC (4/40) and Graphics
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In article <1990Aug2.002942.17476@rice.edu> ballen@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
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>I have heard that you can use a GX board in the IPC, and that
>it will work, but that it is not an "officially supported" configuration.

I thought the reason you couldn't use a GX board in an IPC was because the
GX takes two S-bus slots, and at least one of the IPC's two slots was used
for something else.  Are both of the IPC's slots available?  I also seem
to remember somebody saying that a 1-slot GX board was in the works.

>Apparently this is for marketing reasons.

I cannot believe that Sun would say the IPC doesn't support GX graphics
simply to position it at the low end of the price spectrum.

Dave Sill (de5@ornl.gov)		These are my opinions.
Martin Marietta Energy Systems
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