[rescue] FS/FTGH: Sun kit

[Erie Patsellis]

or worse yet, program in postscript (I had one of the earlies of the 
linotronics, the first year, I set type by typing raw postscript. God, I 
don't miss those days

erie

Patrick Giagnocavo 717-201-3366 wrote:

>On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 01:24, Richard wrote:
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>>In article <43CC8062.907 at widomaker.com>,
>>    Charles Shannon Hendrix <shannon at widomaker.com>  writes:
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>>>For example, one Nubus card had four GPUs on it, and at the time was one 
>>>of the fastest graphics cards you could get.  I can't remember the 
>>>manufacturer.
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>>Number Nine, perhaps?  I think they made a NuBus graphics adapter as
>>well as a PC adapter.
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>Pretty sure this was the Radius or SuperMac card that had 4 DSPs on it.  It could accelerate PhotoShop operations as well.  Since Apple had an API called Color Quickdraw, they basically wrote a driver that executed the CQD commands on the graphics card hardware rather than on the host CPU - especially nice because at the time (System 7-ish), Apple's OS was not capable of preemptive multitasking .
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>>>I remember the first time I saw a "nice" Apple setup.  There was a IIci 
>>>and a IIfx together, both with quad GPU graphics cards.  Everything was 
>>>fast and smooth even at high resolutions.  Both of them cost more than a 
>>>decent car.
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>>>
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>Of course, either of those systems could replace a $40K typesetter and did not require you to learn arcane typesetting commands and a special, weird keyboard...
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>--Patrick
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