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Well...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 h

by cubano 12y ago

Well...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 ago
Vector 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).