ado@elsie.UUCP (06/11/84)
I've been reading up on Masscomp 500 series stations.
I get the impression that on the Masscomp it's easy to do graphics work
("Hey, box--draw a red line from here to there; now draw a blue rectangle
with these corners") and it's considerably less easy to do image work
("Hey box--here's a pixel-by-pixel description of a color photograph of my
grandparents--put it up on your screen").
Does your impression match mine?
What "less than the cost of a VAX" boxes out there CAN do image work?
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...decvax!allegra!umcp-cs!elsie!ado (301) 496-5688chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (06/12/84)
We have a color Masscomp on loan. It can draw graphics quite
quickly; however, Masscomp has been unable to get us a system that
has a working graphics library. (The supplied programs work fine,
but we don't have documentation on how to talk to the graphics
processor, so we can't even write our own library.)
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