Computing (FOLDOC) dictionary
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hardware A computer output device where each
pixel displayed on the
monitor screen corresponds directly to one
display can be updated extremely rapidly since changing a
pixel involves only a single processor write to memory
line where the speed of the serial line limits the speed at
which the display can be changed.
fonts. Some more expensive systems still delegate graphics
The bitmap display might be traced back to the earliest days
of computing when the Manchester University Mark I(?)
computer, developed by F.C. Williams and T. Kilburn shortly
bits of data which could be read by the user and interpreted
as binary numbers.
[Is this history correct? Was it ever used to display
"graphics"? What was the resolution?]
(2002-05-15)