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From: dleigh@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM (Darren Leigh)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: live video window under X
Summary: Dale Luck
Message-ID: <2417@hplabsz.HPL.HP.COM>
Date: 6 Oct 88 18:49:36 GMT
References: <146700001@hcx1>
Reply-To: dleigh@hplabsz.UUCP (Darren Leigh)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
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In article <146700001@hcx1> devon@hcx1.SSD.HARRIS.COM writes:
>It was Parallax that was demoing the live video system.  The system
>uses Interactive Systems' 386/ix operating system with Interactive's
>X11 server which has specific extensions for the live video.  The
>current "video card" that drives the monitor and accepts the video
>signal is actually a box with its own power supply that sits on top
>of the 386 pc and costs about $8000.  So its really a video processing
>system with a 386 cpu as a peripheral.  There is also a VME bus version
>of this (4 board set), but I don't know of any other servers which have
>the live video enhancements.

Dale Luck of GfxBase Inc. (or Boing Inc. or whatever) was at the
Xhibition demonstrating X11 for the Amiga.  One of his systems had the
genlock attachment and was running live video underneath the root
window.

This was pretty amusing as his booth was right next to the one
Parallax had.