9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
12:30 p.m.
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.
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