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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/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 | * [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 | ||
| + | * [https://www.pdp-11.nl/peripherals/comm/interface/vsv11/vsv11-info.html VSV11 Raster Graphic System] | ||
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Revision as of 23:07, 30 August 2022
The VSV11 Graphic System was a raster display system, originally from 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 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 Q18 QBUS device, which consisted of three different 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 Q/CD QBUS backplane.
See also
External links
- VSV11 and VS11 Raster Graphics Systems
- VSV11/VS11 Raster Graphics System
- VS11 Field Maintenance Print Set - VSV11 FMPS (MP01102) is on pp. 4-56 of the PDF
- VSV11 Raster Graphic System
