Subject: Re: VT340 Stupidity
To: Vance Dereksen <vance@ikickass.org>
From: Chuck McManis <cmcmanis@mcmanis.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 06/20/2001 18:12:22
At 09:01 PM 6/20/01 -0400, you wrote:
>Does that mean you would have to explicitly render each frame you would
>want to write to the terminal? That sounds VERY slow. Too slow for
>interactive graphics, anyway.
Yup. It wasn't "interactive" graphics like we know that they were talking
about, it was like "Unlike the 4010 where you have to erase the whole
screen, we can redraw a single line." I should take a picture of my VT340
plotting some time, Think of it as a fairly high resolution graphing
calculator. In fact, the VAX and the TI-92+ have some similarities in their
performance and their abilities :-)
--Chuck