16 Jun
2020
16 Jun
'20
12:19 p.m.
m?n 2020-06-15 klockan 09:25 -0400 skrev Ethan O'Toole via cctalk:
That is wild! That would have been an interesting product.
That was one of the use cases of Sun's Display Postscript where another
program on another host was able to get equal access to a window on an
work-station.
The justification for the Cray was to experiment
with what could be
done
if you had a Macintosh with the power of a Cray. It had a pretty
fancy
frame buffer attached to it and some pretty sophisticated anti-
aliased
rendering was produced.
Frame buffer attached to Cray? Or Mac with a fancy framebuffer and
offloading to the Cray? Pretty wild.