9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
1:42 p.m.
On 09/10/11 3:30 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 9 Oct 2011 at 14:59, Toby Thain wrote:
I'll argue that the TIGA (TI 340-based) graphics cards were far from
primitive--and the technology dates from 1986.
Hmm, SunDew paper by James Gosling is dated 1986, here:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?NetworkExtensibleWindowSystem
From the emails cited here:
http://www.art.net/Studios/Hackers/Hopkins/Don/lang/NeWS.html
...it couldn't have been part of a product until after 1987.
It did indeed ship with OpenWindows 3.0 (1991) and The NeWS Toolkit (1989).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeWS
so by the time it was generally released, NeXT cube must have been
shipping for at least a year.
However, you are right about Sun using Display PostScript later on;
according to wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWindows)
NeWS was replaced by Display PostScript in v3.3 (1993). I didn't know
that. :)
--Toby
Colour
was notably expensive both on the card side and the monitor
side, unless you wanted
a really crappy monitor or really crappy
resolution/depth. And I was talking about workstations, because that
is where the NeXT competed. PC/home computer graphics was another,
much more primitive, ballgame entirely, in the 1980s. Sun didn't use Display PostScript for
OpenWindows - but their Network
extensible Windowing System did use PostScript primitives and a version
of the language, which is what you are presumably thinking of.
Yes, Sun Draw/NeWS--first presented in 1985.May I assume that NeXT
boxes were already out on the street by then?
--Chuck