[ColorForth] 25x graphics

[Jack Johnson <fragment@xxxxxxx>]

DVI and DFP might not be reasonable ideas after all.  Both use Transition
Minimized Differential Signaling, and according to the PDF I linked to
earlier:

"The TMDS encoding information is not part of the VESA P&D Standard and
must be licensed from Silicon Image."

Unless someone wanted to drive an LCD or TFT panel directly, and bypass
all of this lovely stuff.  That solution might be more interesting yet.

If MIPS really are cheap, why bother with driving a monitor in the
traditional sense?  If you can get the bandwidth, you could network your
monitor.  Your monitor would essentially be an embedded computer that
turned protocol X into a visual image on the CRT/TFT/LCD.  Latency could
be an issue, but I would think that could be overcome, too.

In that sense, it would be easy to envision a "paperless printer" that
(portably?) previewed a print job and optionally forwarded it onto a real
printer, or a gaming console that did nothing but feed VRML or some other
3D markup to monitors that varied in size, performance and price.  You
truly could segregate the display from the "computer".

Perhaps you'd have something like Display PostScript but not driven
locally, and you'd let the other end worry about resolution and refresh
rates.

-Jack

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