Re: Thank you, wscons!

[Chuck Yerkes <chuck_(_at_)_snew_(_dot_)_com>]

Quoting mr grip (jhonold_(_at_)_bigfoot_(_dot_)_com):
> > That's just because you happen to have a cgsix framebuffer, which now
> > benefits from some acceleration in console mode. This is not a wscons
> > improvement per se.
...
> i'd like to thank you as well, it ruled on my ss20.  all sparc owners who
> hated their openbsd consoles should consider letting go of solaris :)

I just hate my Sun's (4m/4c)  as desktops cause the graphics
cards are generally slow and low res.  I used a 4c on my desk
(with SunOS 4, then OpenBSD) for years solely because it fed
two 21" monitors well.  8 bit.  No, 4ms belong on a desk with
a serial console and an ssh session from a machine with a 24bit
graphics card that you can get for < $50.

On the other hand, I have mocked our sun rep that support for
common PCI cards on Ultras is appearing in BSD and that
Sun still wants me to pay HOW MANY Hundreds of $$$ for a
network card?  And $700 for a slow SCSI card?

Chuck