Pdp 11/04 as a device controller.

As I recall, they used a Dec parallel interface to connect the frame buffer controller to the host systems. Tom Duff would be the subject matter expert on the actual hardware. (If you can get his attention and drag him out of retirement for a bit.) This was pre networks.

There was a second company that entered the market a few years later. The name is unfortunately in external offline storage...

We have come a LONG WAY since those days..

On Sun, Mar 5, 2023, 1:52 PM Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu> wrote:

> From: Kenneth Goodwin

> The first frame buffers from Evans and Sutherland were at University of
> Utah, DOD SITES and NYIT CGL as I recall.
> Circa 1974 to 1978.

Were those on PDP-11's, or PDP-10's? (Really early E+S gear attached to
PDP-10's; '74-'78 sounds like an interim period.)

Noel