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From: hp@vmars.tuwien.ac.at (Peter Holzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Graphics Lib, GUI, ..., "X Lit"?
Keywords: Minix V1.5, EGA, VGA, Drivers, GUI
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Date: 17 Sep 90 11:32:26 GMT
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matthew1@stretch.cs.mun.ca (Matthew J. Newhook) writes:

>How about implementing a CGI terminal.  This will be an international
>standard within the year, so if your looking for a standard here's one.

Could you post a description of the capabilities of such a terminal?
We seem now to be in a stage of discussion where everybody throws names
into discussion (X, MGR, Postscript, VDI, CGI, ...) and the majority of
the people does not know what we are talking about (I know X, and I have
an idea what postscript is like, and if VDI is what GEM uses, I know
that too, but the rest I have never heard about).

So please, if you propose any "standards" to be implemented, say what
functions are in that standard, how big a typical implementation is, if
special hardware is needed (Postscript does lots of floating point
operations so a coprocessor is almost necessary), tell us of your
experiences with implementations, etc.

Regards, 
	Peter.
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