GPLGPU Walkthrough

Back when the SGI 1600SW monitor came out, I had more disposable income than common sense. I ended up buying two of them and the accompanying RevIV-FP graphics cards. They were they very best in LCD screens with a digital display connection (OpenLDI, which sadly never caught on), and continued to be so for years afterwards.

I continued using them for a long time in a dual-head setup, until support for the Nine RevIV-FP graphic card in XFree86 evaporated. By that time, monitors with DVI input were finally becoming widely available.

The uptake of digital display connections was frustratingly slow in the early 2000's. I had tried a couple different VGA LCD screens around the turn of the millennia, but I was disappointed with image quality of the digital->analog->digital conversion, which has since improved a lot.

Those 1600SW monitors were very expensive, but running them as long as I did, I suppose I got my money's worth out of them.

Actually... I think they're still in the basement somewhere...