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The Evans & Sutherland PS 390 terminal is a color graphics terminal introduced in 1987 at a price of $43,200.  It allows calligraphic-quality lines and solid-shaded images on a single raster display.
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The Evans & Sutherland PS 390 terminal is a color graphics terminal introduced in 1987 at a price of $43,200.<ref>[http://books.google.com/books?id=jDYGHejAySsC&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71 New Products: Terminals], Computerworld, March 23, 1987, pg. 71</ref> It allows calligraphic-quality lines and solid-shaded images on a single raster display.
  
 
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* 16.7 million color palette
 
* 16.7 million color palette
  
== References ==
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[http://books.google.com/books?id=jDYGHejAySsC&lpg=PA71&pg=PA71 New Products: Terminals], Computerworld, March 23, 1987, pg. 71
 
  
 
[[Category:Evans & Sutherland|PS 390]]
 
[[Category:Evans & Sutherland|PS 390]]

Revision as of 03:38, 5 March 2012

The Evans & Sutherland PS 390 terminal is a color graphics terminal introduced in 1987 at a price of $43,200.[1] It allows calligraphic-quality lines and solid-shaded images on a single raster display.

Features:

  • depth cueing
  • perspective
  • six-plane clipping
  • 16.7 million color palette

References

  1. New Products: Terminals, Computerworld, March 23, 1987, pg. 71