9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
7:06 p.m.
On Tue, 9 Oct 2007, Richard wrote:
In article <200710092326.TAA15052 at
Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
Can't speak about the Grinnel, but in the early '80s I was involved with
a site that had some nice Megatek (IIRC) stroke graphics engines that include
a conic section generator so it could do curves and circles and stuff.
'Course, for all I know that was standard equipment for stroke graphics
hardware...
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net
That sounds a lot like the Grinnell (I think
that's how it was spelt)
framebuffer we had at the lab I worked at in the '80s. It was a Unibus
device, attached to our VAX-11/780, and had some capabilities I've
never seen in a framebuffer since.
Such as?
Today's graphics cards are the fanciest devices available ever.