Timeline for Hardware assisted Graphical User Interface?
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| Mar 30, 2021 at 5:18 | comment | added | Chromatix | @Stilez Once the 2nd CPU was attached, the original computer became the GPU and I/O offload engine. The Z80 version was also commonly used with an actual desktop GUI, though a relatively primitive one. | |
| Mar 30, 2021 at 5:05 | comment | added | Stilez | Not really an answer. While this could have been done, from memory the Tube was used for a 2nd CPU not for advanced GPU offload which is what the OP asks. | |
| Mar 29, 2021 at 11:56 | comment | added | Peter Green | Note that the "tube" connector on the BBC micro was just a connection to the processor bus. The actual tube chip was in the second processor unit. It looks like it was released in 1984. As I understand it in addition to a "DNFS" rom containing among other things code to support the tube, it also required the BBC micros operating system to be version 1.2. | |
| Mar 27, 2021 at 13:06 | history | edited | Chromatix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 27, 2021 at 13:00 | history | answered | Chromatix | CC BY-SA 4.0 |