28 Mar
2003
28 Mar
'03
7:22 p.m.
Is there a 4051 emulator anywhere out there on the
'net?
Won't look as nice as a _real_ vector screen,...
TEK device language had decent backward compatibility.
The old machines had pretty much just moveto,drawto,textat
type commands, so emulators are easy. If I recall, even the
DEC VT330/40 had an emulator. A lot of books talk about
Plot10, but that's a just a SW package that translated these
codes on the host.
Tek 4051 was a complete workstation, with a high level
language (BASIC) so was probably reeeel slow, like 6
frames per _minute_ or worse, depending on the object
detail. Note: these machines have nothing to do with
photorealistic CGI, that was nearly 10 years later.
John A.