earliest graphics display system in your collection?

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Thu Apr 20 12:31:57 CDT 2006


In article <4447A615.3070002 at yahoo.co.uk>,
    Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk>  writes:

> Wow, that's not bad at all. My Tek XD88's a couple of years later than that 
> (and they were considered pretty hot on the graphics front) and is only 8 
> planes and the equivalent of 4 GE's. [...]

My fully-loaded 1989 ESV has 88 bitplanes:
    32-bit Z buffer
    24-bit color, double-buffered
    8-bit window ID
    44 AT&T DSP32C processors for geometry processing
    custom pixel processor ASIC <-- I worked on that
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