Hi Michael,

Thanks for the info... I always thought the SPX indicated a single
plane graphics system (IE the Mono on the motherboard), and DEC only
called it SPX to differentiate it from the (identical) MicroVAX 3100.

Learn something new everyday :)

Were these boards common or pretty rare? Or to phrase it another
way, should I plan on getting a VS40X board because NetBSD isn't
going to support it in my lifetime?

Thanks!
clint

On Wed, 9 May 2001, Michael Kukat wrote:

> Hi !
> 
> On Tue, 8 May 2001, Clint Wolff (VAX collector) wrote:
> > I have a VAXstation 3100/M48 with a rather odd graphics card in
> > it:
> >
> > 	SCANPROC 8 PLANE 2D
> >
> > Made by digital, same form factor (roughly) as the VS40X, but
> > Ultrix 4.4 doesn't recognize it. VMS 5.? does. Since the goal
> > is to run NetBSD when support for graphics stabilizes (and
> > Ultrix til then), does anyone know what's up with this board?
> 
> This board is the SPX card, the VS40X is the GPX card. The SPX doesn't seem to
> be supported by Ultrix, but you can try to run the VXT software on this box,
> i think this was working with a VS3100m30. VMS supports the SPX, NetBSD might
> be a bit... far away from supporting it.
> 
> ...Michael
> 
> -- 
> In TV, there are bluescreens to put a faked reality behind a real played scene,
> in Windows, you sometimes see the real scene, when the fakes go out for lunch.
> 
> 
>