Comment by Theodores

Standard on SGI workstations from a very early age. Normally with a beautiful Trinitron display with the 'epic' SGI logo at the bottom, looking as cool as 'a Tesla badge on a car' but infinitely cooler.

There were two faint 'mask' lines in the Trinitron display, but other than that, the colours were every bit as amazing as today's latest AMOLED displays.

Compared to the cost of the box or even broadcast standard 'D1' monitors, the expense on a high resolution screen and the RAM to push the pixels was not a big deal.

Obviously PC's came from a different beginning. Adding on a £3000 screen was not going to happen.

If you follow workstatins back 'to Xerox PARC' they have always been super-hi res. Even Sun workstations of the 'SunTools' era were high resolution, albeit mono.