10 year rule

[Doc Shipley]

Zane H. Healy wrote:

>>   Man, this thing is a close runner-up to an Apple Cinema Display for 
>> color and crispness.  Since I don't *have* a cinema display (or a 
>> thousand clams to get one) I'm very seriously considering a MultiLink 
>> adapter.  My current tube is a SGI GDM-4011P, and the flat-panel makes 
>> it look like cheap Sampo junk.
> 
> 
> Oh, you just had to tell me that didn't you.  I probably wouldn't even 
> have to work that hard to talk my wife into a 1600SW, as she wanted one 
> when I got the o2!

   My work is done, here.  :)

   Just to rub it in a little, this was a "brother-in-law deal".  I paid 
less for the whole rig than the 1600SW sells for on eBay.  And no stuck 
pixels.

> Is it possible to put Linux on one of these?  That's what it would take 
> to make them really interesting for me (though I'd prefer Solaris x86 on 
> one).

   Neither OS supports the accelerated graphics.  I think it'll run 
Linux, but only in text mode and maybe unaccelerated VESA graphics mode.

   I'm looking into video capture software.  There are some things I'd 
like to do, and I think between the 320 and the Octane with EVO I have 
the hardware to do the capture (from VHS, 16mm, and mini-VHS), then I 
can do the editing on the G5.


	Doc