Hi,

In message , "Dave Plowman (News)"
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In article ,
Pooh Bear wrote:
I actually wote a basic computer graphics program on a BBC B that a
small film company used. It had an external colour look-up adaptor to
remap the output to up to 16 of 4096 pre-selected colurs ( when the IBM
PC still had 4 colours including black) and used a Calcomp digitiser for
drawing input. A very nice Barco monitor was good enough to film the
results directly from the screen.

The company that does much of the on screen graphics for ITV game shows
like the Vault and Millionaire still uses Acorn RPCs with their own
interfaces. Or did last time I worked on one of these.

That rings a bell - I got a phone call from some contractors when
Millionaire was starting asking about some weird display equipment to
drive the displays in studio. We put a spec. together and only then did
they mention that it all had to run on Acorn. We said "okay, but the
software will take six months". I never heard back :-)


Reasons given - it works. Is reliable. And not the same chance of having
things nicked - as would be the case if it were posh PC laptops. Perhaps
they'll change when HDTV comes along.

It's starting, but it's sloowww. The BBC guys are asking me about linux
(so they can try to port all their old Silicon Graphics stuff). Most of
the small production guys are asking about PC based HD editing and
rendering hardware based around Adobe Premiere (yikes!) and Avid.

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Regards,
Glenn Booth