tut@populi.UUCP (10/18/83)
Somebody who went to NCC told me that Digital displayed a workstation with a high-res bit-mapped display and digitizing tablet, intended for CAD/CAM. I don't know its name, but would appreciate any information about this new product, and about its suitability for CAD/CAM. Bill Tuthill ucbvax!imagen!tut
sdyer@bbncca.ARPA (Steve Dyer) (10/22/83)
The VAXstation 100 is a bit-mapped terminal which plugs into a VAX UNIBUS. It can be placed up to 300 meters away from the VAX by means of a fiber-optic cable. It has a landscape, 19" monitor, 60hz refresh, non-interlaced, P4 low-persistence phosphor. Resolution in dots is 1088h X 864v. It can be used with either a mouse or a graphics tablet. Internally, it has a 68000 and a 2901-based BITBLT accelerator. All three processors (VAX host, 68K, BITBLT) can access each others' memory. In addition to some sort of native-mode, it supports VT100 and Tek 4014 emulation modes. There seems to be quite a bit of support for the terminal (including windows) for VMS. Some have expressed concern that the UNIBUS connect is a bit expensive (to put it mildly). I would guess that DEC's ultimate goal is to migrate the VAX into the workstation, while keeping the same logical architechure. Most of this information (with the exception of my idle speculations) comes from DEC's "VAXstation Technical Brochure", available from your local sales office. /Steve Dyer decvax!bbncca!sdyer
mark@umcp-cs.UUCP (10/23/83)
The DEC product with a high-res bitmapped display is called
the VAXSTATION 100. It has a 68000 inside, but at the moment
DEC isn't telling you how to talk to it. (When I asked they
said they would be releasing this information sometime).
No more than two VAXSTATIONs my be connected to a unibus,
for somereason, which certainly limits them.
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