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   Ted Nolan    
   Re: naughty Python   
   02 Jan 26 17:14:02   
   
   XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article <10j7qap$6ptq$1@dont-email.me>,   
   Lawrence D˙Oliveiro   wrote:   
   >On 2 Jan 2026 06:01:53 GMT, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   >   
   >> Turbo Pascal for CP/M-86 could access the graphics hardware on the   
   >> DEC Rainbow. A niche to be sure, but one my CSCI graphics class did   
   >> its projects in.   
   >   
   >Did it have its own custom drivers for direct hardware access? Or did   
   >it work through the “GSX” (GKS-superset) graphics library from Digital   
   >Research?   
      
   At this remove, I have no idea.  And I never understood all the math,   
   so I was the guy in the team who wrote the CLI to interpret our   
   made up command language instead of doing the projections or whatever..   
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