5 Mar
2023
5 Mar
'23
9:43 p.m.
There was a Three Rivers Graphic Wonder (a vector display) on the
University of Toronto PDP-11/45 in 1975, maybe 1974. There wasn't a frame
buffer until Dave Tennenhouse built one around 1978 - not sure of that
date, maybe a little later
.
256x256, 8 bits per pixel, or 65kilobytes, the full data address space of
the PDP-11.
-rob
On Mon, Mar 6, 2023 at 5:52 AM Noel Chiappa <jnc(a)mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:
From: Kenneth
Goodwin
The first frame buffers from Evans and Sutherland
were at University
of
Utah, DOD SITES and NYIT CGL as I recall.
Circa 1974 to 1978.
Were those on PDP-11's, or PDP-10's? (Really early E+S gear attached to
PDP-10's; '74-'78 sounds like an interim period.)
Noel