[Simh] An idea for graphics support in SIMH

Zane H. Healy healyzh at aracnet.com
Wed Jul 7 13:20:40 EDT 2010



On Wed, 7 Jul 2010, Brian Knittel wrote:

> This seems like a good approach. Besides the PDP-1, the PDP-11 had the
> VT-11 and the IBM 1130 had the 2250. These are very similar devices --
> asynchronous display-list vector display processors. Who knows -- maybe
> someone can rig up an Evans and Sutherland PS2 for the PDP-11/70. (I
> think Tom Ferrin's UNIX V6 drivers are available?).

There were quite a few DEC and non-DEC graphics boards for the PDP-11.  I
have a 3rd party q-bus board, but have never gotten around to trying to find
software, or a monitor (and cables) to hook up to it.

Zane





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