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Subject: Re: VDI Graphics Info
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Date: Thu, 23-May-85 10:27:00 EDT
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> 	3. GSS's (Graphics Software Systems) bindings and drives are
> 		available on the AT&T Unix PC (7300), are they available
> 		for the 6300 or IBM PC and compatables.
> 
> 	6. Any price information as well as OEM details would be helpful.
> 
> 	7. What 'C' compilers are supported?  Is 'C' and ASM source
> 		included?  DRI includes 'C' bindings source.

IBM sells the GSS stuff as the IBM-logoed Graphics Development Toolkit, for 
$350.  It comes with bindings for compiled Basic, Pascal, and assembler (some 
macros you can use.) Send in the registration card and they send you an update 
kit including bindings for Lattice C, large model only.  Source is not 
available from IBM.  It looks pretty good, and the documentation is 
extensive.  My main complaint is that the interface is implemented as device 
drivers.  That does mean that your code will continue to work when you write 
new drivers for new devices, but it also means that installation is too hard 
for casual users, which makes it a bad idea to plan to distribute software 
that depends on it to other than hard-core graphics users.  

John Levine, ima!johnl