[TUHS] Origins of the frame buffer device

[Kenneth Goodwin]

Pdp 11/04  as a device controller.

 As I recall, they used a Dec parallel interface to connect the frame
buffer controller to the host systems. Tom Duff would be the subject matter
expert on the actual hardware. (If you can  get his attention and drag him
out of retirement for a bit.) This was pre networks.

There was a second company that entered the market a few years later. The
name is unfortunately in external offline storage...

We have come a LONG WAY since those days..

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 1:52 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc at mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

>     > From: Kenneth Goodwin
>
>     > The first frame buffers from Evans and Sutherland were at University
> of
>     > Utah, DOD SITES and NYIT CGL as I recall.
>     > Circa 1974 to 1978.
>
> Were those on PDP-11's, or PDP-10's? (Really early E+S gear attached to
> PDP-10's; '74-'78 sounds like an interim period.)
>
>           Noel
>
>
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