Newsgroups: comp.arch
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: XOR cursors
Message-ID: <1990Jun27.165914.6576@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1990Jun20.011602.1010@xavax.com> <1990Jun26.182359.2989@utzoo.uucp> <4899@ethz.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 90 16:59:14 GMT

In article <4899@ethz.UUCP> prl@ethz.UUCP (Peter Lamb) writes:
>Newmann and Sproull talk about the use of reversible raster operations
>for cursors in `Introduction to Computer Graphics'. The earliest copy I
>have is 1979 (2nd edition), but there's a 1973 copyright (to McGraw-Hill)
>in the cover sheets. This is presumabably the first edition.
>...
>Does anyone have a copy of the 1973 edition? Does it also have
>this material? Our library only has the 2nd edition.

My copy of the 1973 edition is around somewhere, but not handy.  Alas, it
had very little on frame-buffer algorithms, because useful frame buffers
were not very common then.  If memory serves, all the stuff on RasterOp
etc. was added in the second edition.
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