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Re:Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITS... by FlowingRiver on Thursday September 17, 2026 @07:56PM (#49748454)
These things feel like, if they have any video output, it would be a single VGA port for if you REALLY need to get a signal from it.
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Re:Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITS... by numpad0 on Friday September 18, 2026 @02:55AM (#49750954)
x86 servers are like that. PC/AT memory map have the range for VRAM, but RS232C is optional, so you can't just have the RS232C and not VGA on an x86 as its debug/recovery interface.

Platform designers can make up their own memory maps, so non-x86 ones can just have UART I/O buffer and hardware interface wired up in whatever address you want and forgo VGA.

I have a 32bit SPARC machine on a shelf I got from a junk hardware shop, it has a DB25 for console. It's ok.

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