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The '''VSV11 Graphic System''' was a [[raster]] [[display]] system, originally from [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s Computer Special Systems division. The VSV11 used an odd intermediary approach: although the [[video]] output signal was produced by scanning a large raster array memory in the VSV11, the image is specified by a [[display program]] held in [[main memory]]. The VSV11 used [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] to retrieve the display program from the system's main memory, and converted it to a [[bit-mapped display]]-type image stored in the VSV11's raster memory, from where it was displayed.

Screen [[display refresh]] was not performed by re-reading the display program; rather, it was done by repetitively scanning the raster memory in the VSV11. The VSV11 was capable of displaying text (using subsidiary display programs for each character), vectors (short and long), points (relative and absolute), and bit-maps of varying sizes. 

The VSV11 also supported a H3060 [[joystick]] for pointing input.

It was a [[QBUS#Variable address size|Q18]] [[QBUS]] device, which consisted of three different [[DEC card form factor|quad]] boards: an M7061 Sync Generator/Cursor Control module; an M7064 Display Processor module; and one or more M7062 Image Memory modules. They plugged into a standard [[QBUS backplanes|Q/CD QBUS backplane]].

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==See also==

* [[VT11 Graphic Display Processor]]

==External links==

* [https://archive.org/download/TNM_VSV11_and_VS11_Raster_Graphics_Systems_-_digi_20171029_0045/TNM_VSV11_and_VS11_Raster_Graphics_Systems_-_digi_20171029_0045.pdf VSV11 and VS11 Raster Graphics Systems]
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/VSV11/YM-C183C-00_VSV11_Option_Description_Dec81.pdf VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System]
* [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/MP01102_VS11_Engineering_Drawings_Mar81.pdf VS11 Field Maintenance Print Set] - VSV11 FMPS (MP01102) is on pp. 4-56 of the PDF

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 The '''VSV11 Graphic System''' was a [[raster]] [[display]] system, originally from [[Digital Equipment Corporation|DEC]]'s Computer Special Systems division. The VSV11 used an odd intermediary approach: although the [[video]] output signal was produced by scanning a large raster array memory in the VSV11, the image is specified by a [[display program]] held in [[main memory]]. The VSV11 used [[Direct Memory Access|DMA]] to retrieve the display program from the system's main memory, and converted it to a [[bit-mapped display]]-type image stored in the VSV11's raster memory, from where it was displayed.
-Screen [[display refresh]] was not performed by re-reading the display program; rather, it was done by repetitively scanning the raster memory in the VSV11. The VSV11 was capable of displaying text (using subsidiary display programs for each character), vectors (short and long), points (relative and absolute), and bit-maps of varying sizes. <!-- any displayed item can be set to blink. The resolution was 1024x768 [[pixel]]s. -->
+Screen [[display refresh]] was not performed by re-reading the display program; rather, it was done by repetitively scanning the raster memory in the VSV11. The VSV11 was capable of displaying text (using subsidiary display programs for each character), vectors (short and long), points (relative and absolute), and bit-maps of varying sizes. <!-- any displayed item can be set to blink. The [[resolution]] was 1024x768 [[pixel]]s. -->
 The VSV11 also supported a [[H3060 Joystick|H3060]] [[joystick]] for pointing input.

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 The VSV11 also supported a H3060 [[joystick]] for pointing input.
-It was a [[QBUS#Variable address size|Q18]] [[QBUS]] device, which consisted of three different [[DEC card form factor|quad]] boards: an M7061 Sync Generator/Cursor Control module; an M7064 Display Processor module; and one or more M7062 Image Memory modules. All had to plug into adjacent slots in a [[QBUS backplanes|Q/CD QBUS backplane]].
+It was a [[QBUS#Variable address size|Q18]] [[QBUS]] device, which consisted of three different [[DEC card form factor|quad]] boards: an M7061 Sync Generator/Cursor Control module; an M7064 Display Processor module; and one or more M7062 Image Memory modules.
-They were connected by an [[over the back]] [[flat cable]], which carried the inter-board DBUS (Memory Data Bus, covered in Section 4.3.3 of the 'VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System Option Description'); and also plugged into a standard Q/CD backplane, which carried the Video Bus (covered in Section 6.3.9) on the [[CD interconnect]].
+They were connected by an [[over the back]] [[flat cable]], which carried the inter-board DBUS (Memory Data Bus, covered in Section 4.3.3 of the 'VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System Option Description'). They also plugged into a standard [[QBUS backplanes|Q/CD QBUS backplane]], which carried the Video Bus (covered in Section 6.3.9) on the [[CD interconnect]]; all the cards therefore had to plug into adjacent slots.
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 It was a [[QBUS#Variable address size|Q18]] [[QBUS]] device, which consisted of three different [[DEC card form factor|quad]] boards: an M7061 Sync Generator/Cursor Control module; an M7064 Display Processor module; and one or more M7062 Image Memory modules. All had to plug into adjacent slots in a [[QBUS backplanes|Q/CD QBUS backplane]].
-They were connected by an [[over the back]] [[flat cable]], which carried the inter-board DBUS (covered in Section 4.3.3 of the 'VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System Option Description'); and also plugged into a standard Q/CD backplane, which carried the Video Bus (covered in Section 6.3.9) on the [[CD interconnect]].
+They were connected by an [[over the back]] [[flat cable]], which carried the inter-board DBUS (Memory Data Bus, covered in Section 4.3.3 of the 'VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System Option Description'); and also plugged into a standard Q/CD backplane, which carried the Video Bus (covered in Section 6.3.9) on the [[CD interconnect]].
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 * [[VS11 Graphic System]]
 * [[VT11 Graphic Display Processor]]
 ==External links==

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 * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/VSV11/YM-C183C-00_VSV11_Option_Description_Dec81.pdf VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System]
 * [http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/dec/graphics/MP01102_VS11_Engineering_Drawings_Mar81.pdf VS11 Field Maintenance Print Set] - VSV11 FMPS (MP01102) is on pp. 4-56 of the PDF
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