Re: Who uses SPARC laptops?
From: Bruce D Porter (bdp_at_ytc1.co.uk)
Date: 12/24/03
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 15:58:49 +0000
On Wed, 24 Dec 2003 09:21:00 -0600, Griff Miller wrote:
> I'm looking at SPARC laptops as a way to support a user of a set of SPARC
> applications, who wants to be mobile. Porting the apps to Solaris x86
> is not a welcome proposition at this time - my prediction is that
> there would be lots of issues with endian-ness .
Well, yess it would be an endian-ness issue, but providing they are well
written apps then I am led to believe it is certinally do-able.
>
> So I'd like to know about experiences people have had with the
> recent crop of SPARC laptops. Who's making them (Tadpole? Nextcom?),
> strengths, weaknesses, etc.
Naturetech
http://www.nextcomputing.com/powersparc.htm
>
> One thing that concerns me, the image display apps in this suite depend on
> there being a PseudoColor visual. They have not been modified to use
> 24-bit TrueColor . My fear is that SPARC laptops use PC-type
> framebuffers, which cannot support PseudoColor. If you choose to
> respond to my post, the output of xdpyinfo on your SPARC laptop
> would be a welcome sight.
>
> TIA
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Bruce
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