VAX graphics

[Al Kossow]

On 2/15/10 11:40 AM, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Feb 15, 2010, at 1:26 PM, Richard wrote:
>>> I just stumbled upon this video of a computer tablet:
>>>
>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPC_w9yYe5M
>>>
>>> They show a VAX-11/780 with RP06 and TU70 (I think) and claim its doing
>>> the graphics. But I'm curious, what terminal and software is used? Does
>>> anyone have a clue?
>>
>> Since its 1986, the software is most likely custom.
>>

Running under Unix. You see a user profile with / pathname when he brings up the
menu. I wish they wouldn't have chopped off the credits. The artist is named "Paul"
and he says he worked in Hollywood.

Raster updates are quite slow, it could be a graphics terminal running over a serial
line (Ramtek, Chromerics, Raster Tech, Genesco, AED all possibilities). Guessing 640 x 480 x 8
resolution. Their use of overlays would have been easy with planar frame buffers.