[rescue] The aesthetics of rescue

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Francisco Javier Mesa-Martinez <lefa at cats.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> > Do you actually own a perq?  They were vector graphics based,
> weren't they?
>  
> Aaaahahhh heresy! The perqs were supposed to be one of the first
> machines with bitmapped graphics..... I think they had a flat
> memory space the bitmapped gfx memory was part of the normal 
> add space (I may be wrong).

Really? How did the Alto do graphics?

I think bitmapped graphics were more common than that...
 
> How can anyone forget a machine whose native OS is called POS? :-/

Dec Professional - "Professional Operating System" POS

Lionel

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Lionel

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