[HECnet] VMS on zx6000 - argh?

On 8-7-2011 1:01, Mark Benson wrote: Ahh to hell with that then - I'm not running a Serial Console to a machine with a ATi FireGL card in :P Unfortunately, you won't be able to take advantage of that particular graphics adapter under OpenVMS anyway, unless you make it happen (I also happen to have one of those cards and maybe I'll give that a try some day, to attempt writing a 'simple' driver, perhaps based on the Linux open source driver). The 'last' and 'best' card that is available for OpenVMS, which will even do OpenGL (or "Open3D") is the ATi Radeon 7500. Beware, most Radeon 7500 cards offered for sale nowadays are of the so-called "Mobility" type and it's often not mentioned or not very clearly. One of the best ways of identifying one is the fact that they typically only came with 64 MB memory. - MG