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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