[TUHS] Origins of the frame buffer device

[emanuel stiebler]

On 2023-03-08 00:43, Lars Brinkhoff wrote:
> 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

If the drawing speed is measured in inches, probably a vector screen ...