PDP-11 graphics products

Richard legalize at xmission.com
Wed Oct 10 11:36:52 CDT 2007


In article <e1d20d630710091940u220207c4hdee5f0816f5a7c26 at mail.gmail.com>,
    "William Donzelli" <wdonzelli at gmail.com>  writes:

> > Such as?
> >
> > Today's graphics cards are the fanciest devices available ever.
> 
> Here is a function that "the fanciest devices available ever" can not do:
> 
> Intergraph marketed VAXes as servers - 8550s, I think. They had custom
> disk controllers that had processing engines to search the disks for
> graphics primitives, independent of the VAX.

Its not a graphics feature.
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