9 Oct
2007
9 Oct
'07
7:06 p.m.
Richard wrote:
In article <200710092326.TAA15052 at
Sparkle.Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>,
der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:
they are neat, but not doing anything which wasn't done 20 years ago.
But they do it very fast ;-)
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.