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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 11 , Issue 6 (June 1968) table of contents

Pages: 410 - 414

Year of Publication: 1968

ISSN:0001-0782

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T. H. Myer	Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, MA
I. E. Sutherland	Harvard Univ., Cambridge, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

The flexibility and power needed in the channel for a computer display are considered. To work efficiently, such a channel must have a sufficient number of instruction that it is best understood as a small processor rather than a powerful channel. As it was found that successive improvements to the display processor design lie on a circular path, by making improvements one can return to the original simple design plus one new general purpose computer for each trip around. The degree of physical separation between display and parent computer is a key factor in display processor design.

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INDEX TERMS

Keywords:
computer graphics, display channel, display generator, display processor design, display programming, display system, displays, graphic terminal, graphical interaction, graphics, remote displays

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