Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

[Stefan Skoglund]

mån 2020-06-15 klockan 09:25 -0400 skrev Ethan O'Toole via cctalk:
> > 
> 
> That is wild! That would have been an interesting product.
> 
> > The justification for the Cray was to experiment with what could be
> > done 
> > if you had a Macintosh with the power of a Cray. It had a pretty
> > fancy 
> > frame buffer attached to it and some pretty sophisticated anti-
> > aliased 
> > rendering was produced.
> 
> Frame buffer attached to Cray? Or Mac with a fancy framebuffer and 
> offloading to the Cray? Pretty wild.
> 

That was one of the use cases of Sun's Display Postscript where another
program on another host was able to get equal access to a window on an
work-station.