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From: ado@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Can Masscomps (or others) do image work?
Message-ID: <959@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-Jun-84 09:02:09 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jun 11 09:02:09 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 12-Jun-84 01:04:02 EDT
Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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I've been reading up on Masscomp 500 series stations.

I get the impression that on the Masscomp it's easy to do graphics work
("Hey, box--draw a red line from here to there; now draw a blue rectangle
with these corners") and it's considerably less easy to do image work
("Hey box--here's a pixel-by-pixel description of a color photograph of my
grandparents--put it up on your screen").

Does your impression match mine?

What "less than the cost of a VAX" boxes out there CAN do image work?
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