VAX graphics

In article <4B8B0028.5010200 at bitsavers.org>, Al Kossow <aek at bitsavers.org> writes: Agreed. The 411x machines had much more local processing and were higher end. My thought was not to make a statement about the power of the 4105 relative to other members of the period Tektronix product line. My thinking was that this meager amount (by today's standards) of ability in a Tektronix 4105 was sufficient for the CAD market at the time. I could be wrong there too :-). In 1986 I wasn't doing market analysis of product requirements for CAD. However, I was reading the print eddition of EE Times (man, what a great EE paper for the 80s, I wonder if any collection of printed issues survives?). They regularly talked about product announcements, particularly in the realm of CAD tools. Still, it feels like simple 2D raster displays is what the CAD programs were talking to at the time. I'm not sure when workstation based CAD started taking over from terminal based CAD, but I have a feeling that by 1990 it was firmly in the hands of workstations. Another decade later and it feels that CAD was firmly in the hands of PCs. Al, is anyone compiling CAD software history for the CHM? -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" -- DirectX 9 draft available for download <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com/the-direct3d-graphics-pipeline/> Legalize Adulthood! <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>