Modern Marvels: Computers ?? no graphics supers

[Richard]

In article <200703102049.l2AKnYHJ004478 at mwave.heeltoe.com>,
    Brad Parker <brad at heeltoe.com>  writes:

> mmm.  another engineer and I made a triangle blt machine in 1983/1984
> from raw ttl.  it followed a display list.  I think we were in the
> "100's" of triangles at the time.
> 
> wish we'd patented that :-)  it made from some fun coin-op game prototypes bu
t
> never got out the door...

You probably would have run into patents by Evans & Sutherland...
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