[rescue] Graphics on a E450

[Dave McGuire]

On 11/2/25 12:12, Alan Perry via rescue wrote:
>>> I received a decommissioned E450 from work. I don't see a frame 
>>> buffer in it, so I guess it ran headless. The E450 falls into a gap 
>>> in my experience with Sun (I left the first time in '97 and came back 
>>> in '03). What graphics is supported and how does it compare to SS20 
>>> graphics? The System Handbook lists PGX, PGX32, PGX64, and Expert3D 
>>> but I hadn't heard of any of those before I looked at that list.
>>
>>   It can definitely be done, but I'd have to wonder why one would want 
>> that on a machine that is very clearly a server.  I've worked with a 
>> lot of E450s at a lot of sites, but I don't think I've ever seen one 
>> with a framebuffer, so clearly I'm not the only person with that opinion.
>>
> Because it is there. Because why not. After I went in and found it in my 
> office, I was going to just bring it home but some co-workers told me 
> they wanted to see it run, so I am going to throw a disk in it and 
> install Solaris and a graphical display would be more interesting to 
> show than a serial console.

   On that basis, no argument whatsoever!

           -Dave

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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA