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Well, even the pedestrian NextCube had a "megapixel" display -- 1024x1024 graphics. Even in monochrome, that was pretty impressive for the day. The icons actual
by jhbadger 5y ago
Well, even the pedestrian NextCube had a "megapixel" display -- 1024x1024 graphics. Even in monochrome, that was pretty impressive for the day. The icons actually looked like what they represented, not abstractions.
- spamizbad 5y agoMaybe at the Cube's (albeit still very expensive) price-point. But by 1990 SGI had VGX(T) graphics on the market, which could do 24bit color at 1280x1024. It could also clock to early HGTV signals for overlays.
- foobiekr 5y agoIt's a nit, but I think the megapixel display was 1120x832.
- lizknope 5y agoYou are correct https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT_MegaPixel_Display The original MegaPixel Display was a monochrome 17" monitor displaying 4 brightness levels (black, dark gray, light gray and white) in a fixed resolution of 1120 x 832 at 92 DPI (just shy of a true Megapixel at 931,840 total pixels) at 68 Hz
- rasz 5y agoThanks to open nature PCs had better capabilities for many years before Next even came out, and cheaper too. October 1986 https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=rHeRHwiF4l&dq=verticom+ega+review&pg=PA41&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=true https://books.google.com/books?id=mzwEAAAAMBAJ&lpg=PA41&ots=... Multiple 1024x768@16 cards in $2-3K range, and an absolute steal - $3K Number Nine 1280 1280x1024@256. In 1988 you could buy 1664x1200 PC card + 19 inch monitor $2400 combo https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&dq=Sigma+Designs+laserview+plus&as_brr=1&cd=1&hl=cs#v=onepage&q=Sigma%20Designs%20laserview%20plus&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=Cj8EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA53&dq=Si... or ~$1K 15 inch 1mpix version.