21 Dec
1998
21 Dec
'98
9:27 a.m.
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Tony Duell wrote:
AFAIK, the PS-300 was only capable of drawing vectors. If there was a
facility to draw bit maps, I never used it, and it seems silly to make an
anti-aliasing raster display system that could only do vectors.
I also occassionly used an earlier PS-2 that belonged to a guy named
Livingston who did a somewhat famous film about brains using his (vector
graphics) PS.
I think the PS-300 came out just as Silicon Graphics got into the game,
and that pretty much marked the end of vector-only displays.
-- Doug
IIRC, a big
vector display in a black rounded cab, a dorm-fridge-sized 68K
Vector? The PS-390 is certainly a raster display system, although with
hardware support for vector-type operations, and some kind of custom chip
to remove stairsteps from the displayed lines (the Shadowfax chip, I
think they called it).