[TUHS] Origins of the frame buffer device

[Clem Cole]

On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 11:55 AM Theodore Ts'o <tytso at mit.edu> wrote:

> A year later, they came out with a version with X Windows, which made
> it roughly comprable to a low-end Sun Workstation, at a price of $9k.
> Given that in addition to the 3M's (1 MIPS, 1 Meg of Memory, and 1
> Megapixel graphics display), it also adhered to the "4th M", costing
> roughly $10k, or a "Megapenny".  :-)
>
CMU's SPICE proposal was for a 3M machine at under $5K by 1985. But you are
right $10-15K was typical in those days.
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