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On the design of display processors

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 11, Issue 6

Pages 410 - 414

https://doi.org/10.1145/363347.363368

Published: 01 June 1968 Publication History

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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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Communications of the ACM Volume 11, Issue 6

June 1968

130 pages

ISSN:0001-0782

EISSN:1557-7317

DOI:10.1145/363347

Editor:
Gerard Salton
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY

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Seminal graphics: pioneering efforts that shaped the field, Volume 1
July 1998
460 pages
ISBN:158113052X
DOI:10.1145/280811
Editor:
Rosalee Wolfe
DePaul University

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