johan@dutnak2.UUCP (07/13/89)
We want to make our MACII's operate like general purpose color display stations. Let me explain what I mean with that: A person sits behind a terminal (connected to our Convex Unix machine). He issues a display command. The Convex calculates the pixelmap (and lookup table). A few seconds later, the image pops up on the screen of the MacII (with Ethernet card) that is located next to his terminal. So I guess we want to have a Macintosh application that makes the Mac a slave of the Unix machine. This application should listen to Ethernet or the serial port. If there is something to display, it should issue a file transport (of the image file) and the image should be displayed in a window on the Mac. Save as PICT would be a nice option. This is going to be a 5 month project for a computer science student. We would like to have an idea how it can be done, so that this guy doesn't have to start from scratch. Perhaps someone is already doing this? Johan de Haas tel. +31 15 785188 E-mail: johan@dutnak0.tudelft.nl Delft University of Technology P.O Box 5046, 2600 GA Delft, The Netherlands