Intelligent satellites for interactive graphics

  • Authors:
  • Andries Van Dam;George M. Stabler

  • Affiliations:
  • Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island;Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

  • Venue:
  • AFIPS '73 Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition
  • Year:
  • 1973

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Abstract

In the last four or five years it has become increasingly fashionable to speak of "intelligent," "smart," or "programmable" terminals and systems. Very few mainframe or peripheral manufacturers omit such a device from their standard product line. Although "intelligence," like beauty or pornography, is in the eye of the beholder, the adjective generally connotes that the device has a degree of autonomy or processing ability which allows it to perform certain (classes of) tasks without assistance from the mainframe to which it is connected. Many such devices are programmable by virtue of including a mini, microprogrammable or micro computer.