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From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: TP Toolboxes
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Date: 8 Dec 89 21:15:06 GMT
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In article <21684@adm.BRL.MIL> raj@pic.ucla.edu (Shiladitya Raj Chaudhury) writes:
>With the arrival of the Graph Unit of TP 4.0/5.x, pretty much 
>everything we needed to do in writing an on-line real time data 
>acquisition system (at least the user interface part) was taken
>care of - our version 4.0 Graphix Toolbox gathers dust to this day.

While i agree that the graph unit takes care of a great part of
Toolbox functions, especially in terms of being a device independent
low-level kernel, I still think the world-coordinate based windowing
of the Toolbox is something to drool over.  I'd like to write the
low-level stuff in the Toolbox using graph.tpu and then use the
Toolbox like one always did.  This way, one even gets runtime
flexibility w.r.t. graphix card.

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Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
                              The more things change, the more they stay insane.
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