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From: tainter@ihlpg.ATT.COM (Tainter)
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: Unix in ROM [was Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)]
Message-ID: <4674@ihlpg.ATT.COM>
Date: 21 Jan 88 04:42:11 GMT
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In article <3225@psuvax1.psu.edu>, przemek@gondor.cs.psu.edu (Przemyslaw Klosowski) writes:
> In article <4530001@hpsrlc.HP.COM> darrylo@hpsrlc.HP.COM (Darryl Okahata) writes:
> I don't think liquid crystal lenses are a good alternative because they 
> do not exist :^) LQ are good for shutters (modulated transmission).
> 				psuvax1!gondor!przemek

Of course they exist.  They are a by product of  LQ hologram synthesis.  One
simply makes a 'pin-prick' hologram (which functions as a lense) artificially
with your LQ matrix.  Admittedly, these LQ holograms are of very poor
quality so far, but they might improve to the point of real utility.

--j.a.tainter