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   From: ted@loft.tnolan.com   
      
   In article ,   
   c186282   wrote:   
   >On 1/2/26 12:14, Ted Nolan  wrote:   
   >> In article <10j7qap$6ptq$1@dont-email.me>,   
   >> Lawrence DÿOliveiro   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..   
   >   
   >   Foley & Van Dam ... "Fundamentals Of Interactive   
   >   Computer Graphics".   
   >   
   >   All the example code is in Pascal.   
   >   
      
   Yes, I do believe that was our text.  This would have been 1983-ish   
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