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From: rthomson@mesa.dsd.es.com (Rich Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PEX, PHIGS, DEC5000?
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.235026.4718@dsd.es.com>
Date: 17 Mar 91 23:50:26 GMT
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In article <1991Mar15.190013.7415@neon.Stanford.EDU>
	rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) writes:
>The Dec solution for 3D graphics on their Risc Decstation5000 is
>PHIGS. Yet, their graphics demo directory (3d_demo) contain numerous
>examples, none of them using PHIGS, but, I guess PEX.

PEX is PHIGS/PHIGS-PLUS Extensions to X, so if they are using PEX they
are using PHIGS (at least for output -- PEX doesn't attempt to cover
PHIGS style input on the server side; input happens through a beast
called the "PHIGS Monitor" which runs as a separate process that
interacts with a PHIGS client program).

So, if you are using PEX you are using PHIGS.

						-- Rich
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