Ahh yes.. the Grinnell Graphics system... that too was impressive for its
day... had one myself a while ago...



On Thu, 20 Jun 2002 20:12:51 -0400 (EDT) der Mouse
<mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> writes:
> > A Vaxstation 100 is the FIRST decwindows workstation.  It is in a 
> box
> > the size of a PRO 380, and interfaces to a Unibus controller board
> > via 2 fibre cables.
> 
> Oh, my, that brings back memories.  Back in my larval stage I used an
> 11/780 with a Grinnell Systems display (under VMS, and then later 
> some
> BSD - probably 4.2 and later mtXinu 4.3+NFS).
> 
> It was a whole cabinet of its own, with its own unibus card(s?)....
> 
> Pretty fancy, tho.  And one facility it supported is one I haven't 
> seen
> in any graphics hardware since.  (Effectively, three independent SP3T
> switches, selecting which pixel subfield controls each lookup table
> input, and another similar bank between the lookup tables and the
> guns.)
> 
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David Barnes
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OpenVMS , Tru64, Linux, NetBSD guru!  LONG LIVE OPENVMS!!!


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