16 Feb
2010
16 Feb
'10
2:24 a.m.
On 2/15/10 11:40 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Richard wrote:
>> I just stumbled upon this video of a computer tablet:
>>
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPC_w9yYe5M
>>
>> They show a VAX-11/780 with RP06 and TU70 (I think) and claim its doing
>> the graphics. But I'm curious, what terminal and software is used? Does
>> anyone have a clue?
>
> Since its 1986, the software is most likely custom.
>
Running under Unix. You see a user profile with / pathname when he brings up the
menu. I wish they wouldn't have chopped off the credits. The artist is named
"Paul"
and he says he worked in Hollywood.
Raster updates are quite slow, it could be a graphics terminal running over a serial
line (Ramtek, Chromerics, Raster Tech, Genesco, AED all possibilities). Guessing 640 x 480
x 8
resolution. Their use of overlays would have been easy with planar frame buffers.