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Were there any graphics terminals for MULTICS ?

I only ever used video terminals — i.e. ASCII terminals that may have interpreted the ANSI position in commands. There was a also SUPDUP server for Multics. The only program I used that did cursor positioning was emacs.

“Graphics terminals”, in the sense of bitmap displays, weren’t common throughout most of Multics’s life. The first one I ever used was the Alto.

Support for ARDS graphics seems common on 60s era MIT operating systems.

Though keep in mind that Multics was more for the business[1] side of things, despite being developed at MIT. ITS was a hacker's OS, it was going to have more cool stuff.

[1]https://multicians.org/site-timeline.html

Btw, great fan of your work at https://github.com/PDP-10/its. Keep up the good work in keeping computer history alive!

Thanks!

A "Video" System

https://multics-wiki.swenson.org/index.php/Using_Multics#Com...

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