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- From: bobp@hal.com (Bob Pendelton)
- Newsgroups: comp.arch
- Subject: Re: Graphics Systems
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.162455.1448@hal.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 16:24:55 GMT
- References: <1992Jul23.182530.12006@dircon.co.uk>
- Organization: HaL Computer Systems, Inc.
- Lines: 26
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- From article <1992Jul23.182530.12006@dircon.co.uk>, by uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish):
- > rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson) writes:
- ^^
- The es here stands for Evans&Sutherland the graphics computer company
- start by Dave Evans and Ivan Sutherland.
-
- > It seems time to remind people about that marvellous paper, ``The
- > Computer Graphics Wheel of Re-incarnation'', that charted the
- > history of people moving graphics in and out and in and out of
- > special purpose h/ware (and it was written sometime around the end
- > of the sixties!). I *think* Ivan Sutherland was the author, but
- > I wouldn't swear to it (*especially* on the net).
-
- It was Ivan. And during the time I worked for E&S I heard the phrase,
- "It's just another turn of the wheel" more times than I can count.
-
- Seeing someone point this out to one of my old cohorts from E&S nearly
- knocked me off my seat. (Hi Rich, how's it going?)
-
- Bob P.
-
- --
- Bob Pendleton | As an engineer I hate to hear:
- bobp@hal.com | 1) You've earned an "I told you so."
- Speaking only for myself. | 2) Our customers don't do that.
- <<< Odin, after the well of Mimir. >>>
-