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by Pixel_Outlaw
Tue Aug 27, 2013 10:20 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: BYTE magazine on LISP, blast from the past.
Replies: 1
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BYTE magazine on LISP, blast from the past.

It looks like there is an archive of BYTE magazine. This issue happens to cover some early version of LISP (all uppercase back then) What really blows me away is that it is only a few dollars for 200+ pages of full color. http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1979-08-rescan/1979_08_BYTE_04-08_LISP...
by Pixel_Outlaw
Tue Aug 27, 2013 8:45 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Universal graphics terminal.
Replies: 4
Views: 10393

Re: Universal graphics terminal.

I think it mostly died out. Or was replaced by X11 servers (depending on your definition of a graphics "terminal") DEC to my knowledge is the company that had them. Who knows what crazy patents might have been in effect during the 80's... However, there is another standard called Tektronix...
by Pixel_Outlaw
Mon Aug 26, 2013 9:44 pm
Forum: The Lounge
Topic: Universal graphics terminal.
Replies: 4
Views: 10393

Universal graphics terminal.

Hello, first post here (Some may know me as Ryan_Burnside from the #Lisp channel) I've had an idea rolling around in my head for some time. In the late 70's and 80's there were graphics terminals. They worked like our current text terminals but allowed ANY language to draw shapes to the screen and h...