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DEC or HP (I no longer remember which) wrote a cool demo that had a fish swim across as many displays as you gave it. It properly rendered the fish split acros
by technofiend 7y ago
DEC or HP (I no longer remember which) wrote a cool demo that had a fish swim across as many displays as you gave it. It properly rendered the fish split across display edges. With walls of displays being so common now it doesn't sound like much but at the time it was a pretty slick demo of X window and its network capability.
- ddingus 7y agoThat's cool
- LargoLasskhyfv 7y agoSounds like http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ http://dmx.sourceforge.net/ which is part of X.Org since release https://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/6.8/ https://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/6.8/ from 2004.
- technofiend 7y agoNo this predated all that. I saw the demo in 1991 or 1992; you had a simple flat file with a list of displays to use or could supply it on the command line. The program itself had to do all the heavy lifting to determine how much of each fish to put on each display.