There is no such thing for the SPARCstation 5. :) There is a special
AFXBus graphics card called an S24 which is 24-bit -- they run less than
$300. 

There are VSIMMs for SS4's, but not SS5's.

Dan

On Mon, 1 Mar 1999, Brad Salai wrote:

> At 7:21 PM +0100 2/28/99, Paul Boven wrote:
> >Hi everyone,
> >
> >I saw a special for a SS5 Vsimm, for 24 bits graphics. My machine is
> >a SS5, 85MHz. As I'm getting pretty tired of colormap-flashing or
> >webpages dithered using 4 colours, I'd like to know if I could indeed
> >use such a Vsimm on my machine, and whether NetBSD would support such
> >a configuration.
> >What would my other options be to get 24 bits color on this machine under
> >NetBSD?
> >
> >Regards, Paul.
> >--
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> >Paul Boven, <e.p.boven@student.utwente.nl>  PE1NUT  QRV 145.575 JO32KF
> >----------------------------------------------------------------------
> >~
> 
> The SS5 doesn't have a built in frame buffer. The vsimm is probably for an
> ss10 or 20.
> The only way to get 24 bit color on an SS5 is to get a 24 bit framebuffer
> (kind of expensive
> in my experience)
> 
> Brad
> 
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