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I'm old enough to remember when my college computer lab had an analog display for one of its systems...if I remember right, it was used for LaTeX applications a
by cubano 12y ago
I'm old enough to remember when my college computer lab had an analog display for one of its systems...if I remember right, it was used for LaTeX applications and development, which during those days was still an interesting CS direction.
I used to be mesmerized by it..everything looked so clean and modern, much better then the crappy 80x25 "workstation" displays of the VAX's and PDP-11's.
- Avitas 12y ago...a vector display.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoThis doesn't make sense in my head: I don't think vector displays were ever used for type setting, but I would love to be proven wrong. Do you have anymore information?
- cubano 12y agoWell...maybe not LaTex, but some sort of mindblowing text to my CS101 mind. What I remembered was this device... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tektronix_4010 The 4014 had a series of commands for drawing both text and graphics I was at the Florida Institute of Technology in 1985, and Lamport had just published the LaTex language and their was some interest in the department in getting a version of it running the the 4014... I think someone hacked a version of it...but my aging memory fails me.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoVector displays don't usually handle text very well. They can draw perfect curves, but I don't think they could ever do the Bezier curves that fonts depend on. Anyways, what you are referring to is in between vector and rasterized displays. Still very interesting. I should ask my dad about this (he worked for Textronix in the 70s).