[Info-vax] OpenVMS graphics - once more

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <mdacm9$r0s$1 at pechter.eternal-september.org>,
	pechter at S20.pechter.dyndns.org (William Pechter) writes:
> In article <4c2d9f33-09a1-4dcf-87d4-a9743af0c037 at googlegroups.com>,
> pcoviello at gmail.com <pcoviello at gmail.com> wrote:
>>On Wednesday, February 11, 2015 at 9:41:44 AM UTC-5, MG wrote:
>>> Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) schreef op 11-feb-2015 om 13:26:
>>> > There was a time, though, when VMS workstations were marketed for
>>> > CAD/CAM.
>>> 
>>> I keep hearing that, from time to time, but where is the proof?
>>> Nobody could ever cite me specific software packages.  Even old
>>> product brochures don't mention too terribly much...  (The only
>>> traces of software somewhat belonging into this category, that I
>>> could ever find documented traces of, was for ULTRIX.)
>>> 
>>>   - MG
>>
>>Unigraphics was the CAD/CAM package available. and is now called NX and
>>still one of the best cad packages there is.
>>
>>PC
> 
> I saw it on an 11/780 or was it an 11/785 back in '85 or so at Eatontown
> NJ doing CAD/CAM -- customer was Bendix Aerospace IIRC.
> 
> Slick 3D CAD part design work...  They supported a number of some type of
> smart terminal off the one VAX.
> 

The VAX at West Point in the (very) early 1980's had no problem
supporting multiple Textronix CAD terminals with digitizers when
I was there.  Don't remember what they ran for software but the
system was in The Geography and Computer Science Department so
it was likely mapping systems.

bill

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