Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!rutgers!iuvax!purdue!decwrl!sun!david
From: david@sun.uucp (David DiGiacomo)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Multiple Virtual Monochrome Screens for Sun CG2
Message-ID: <79702@sun.uucp>
Date: 1 Dec 88 19:24:29 GMT
References: <8811302337.AA08445@cleo.sw.mcc.com> <1215@cps3xx.UUCP>
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. - Mtn View, CA
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In article <1215@cps3xx.UUCP> flynn@pixel.cps.msu.edu (Patrick J. Flynn) writes:
>In article <8811302337.AA08445@cleo.sw.mcc.com> peterson@SW.MCC.COM (James Peterson) writes:
>>  ...  This means that the Sun color display
>>(CG2) can contain up to 8 separate virtual monochrome screens -- each
>>virtual monochrome screen stored in one of the 8 bit planes of the
>>color display.
>
>Would it be possible to do the same thing for the CG4?

Nope.  The cg2 has special hardware to make the frame buffer addressable
by plane or by pixel.  The cg4 frame buffer is only addressable by pixel.