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From: fleischer@gigi.DEC (Bob Fleischer 231-2132 MRO3-2/E7 ECS)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: bitmap or raster-oriented graphics interfaces
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Date: Thu, 17-May-84 14:33:15 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 17 14:33:15 1984
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SIGGRAPH CORE and GKS are well-known and loved (?) as two "hardware
independent" interfaces to graphics.  They do not seem to be
particularly well suited to doing sophisticated bitmap graphics
applications, however.  Are any of you aware of any attempts to
define a "hardware independent" bitmap graphics protocol?

I would suggest that at the user level the Smalltalk "bitblit"
and the Macintosh "quickdraw" interfaces are close to being what
I'm thinking of.  Also, I believe that part of the Microsoft
Windows system is a raster-oriented "hardware independent"
graphics interface.  Are there any others?  Are any standardization
efforts underway for any of them?

		Bob Fleischer
		Digital Equipment Corporation
		2 Iron Way (MRO3-2/E7)
		Marlboro, Massachusetts  01752
		(617) 467-2132
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Thu 17-May-1984 14:30   Bob GIGI::Fleischer 231-2132 MRO3-2/E7