From: utzoo!decvax!genrad!wjh12!foxvax1!brunix!grafix!jnp
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Re: GKS Implementation
Article-I.D.: grafix.1074
Posted: Wed Apr 27 18:05:11 1983
Received: Wed May  4 08:42:12 1983
References: pur-phy.739

GKS (Graphical Kernel System) is a draft international standard for
two-dimensional graphics software.

>From ANSI Document X3H3/82-111  (10/8/82)

The American National Standards Institute Technical Comittee on Computer
Graphics (ANSI X3H3) voted at its meeting October 7 and 8 in Berkeley,
California, to begin the formal steps required to approve GKS, the Graphical
Kernel System, as an American National Standard.

GKS was originally developed by the West German Standards institute (DIN), and
it has undergone extensive technical review and modification within the
International Standards Organization Working Group on Computer Graphics (ISO
TC97/SC5/WG2), of which ANSI is an active member.  This past summer, GKS became
an ISO Draft International Standard.

...

The GKS draft proposed American National Standard is scheduled to be available
for p	of a main program, 8 principle subroutines, 60 supporting subroutines
	and a variety of application functions and utilities. The program is
	coded in FORTRAN 77 and resides on a PRIME 750.


   3) Conclusions Reached

	At this time the writers of SAM are conducting a study of use