Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

2020-06-16 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
That was one of the use cases of Sun's Display Postscript where another program on another host was able to get equal access to a window on an work-station. Sun or NeXT? - Ethan

Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

2020-06-16 Thread Stefan Skoglund via cctalk
mån 2020-06-15 klockan 09:25 -0400 skrev Ethan O'Toole via cctalk: > > > > That is wild! That would have been an interesting product. > > > The justification for the Cray was to experiment with what could be > > done > > if you had a Macintosh with the power of a Cray. It had a pretty > >

Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

2020-06-15 Thread Liam Proven via cctalk
On Mon, 15 Jun 2020 at 15:25, Ethan O'Toole via cctalk wrote: > > > Actually, Al was hired as an Apple Fellow in 1985. His first project was > > "Trojan" a 68000 mac on an ISA card that mixed EGA and square pixel Mac > > video. I was the Mac-side programmer on the project. Marketing killed it > >

Re: Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

2020-06-15 Thread Ethan O'Toole via cctalk
Actually, Al was hired as an Apple Fellow in 1985. His first project was "Trojan" a 68000 mac on an ISA card that mixed EGA and square pixel Mac video. I was the Mac-side programmer on the project. Marketing killed it before it got from ATG to product development. That is wild! That would

Aquarius (was Re: Apple 1)

2020-06-14 Thread Al Kossow via cctalk
On 6/14/20 9:36 PM, Cameron Kaiser via cctalk wrote: He didn't know of anyone doing much other with it either.__ I think it was bought before there was a unix type OS under the Macos. https://wiki.c2.com/?AppleCrayComputer They bought it to use to design the next Macintosh CPU I thought