[TUHS] Origins of the frame buffer device

[Lars Brinkhoff]

Noel Chiappa wrote:
>> 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.)

The Picture System from 1974 was based on a PDP-11/05.  It looks like
vector graphics rather than a frame buffer though.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/Evans_Sutherland/EvansSutherland.3D.1974.102646288.pdf