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From: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards
Subject: Re: system V graphics system
Message-ID: <181@octopus.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 11-Dec-85 17:07:24 EST
Article-I.D.: octopus.181
Posted: Wed Dec 11 17:07:24 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Dec-85 07:48:20 EST
References: <483@brl-tgr.ARPA> <229@vecpyr.UUCP>
Reply-To: pete@octopus.UUCP (Pete Holzmann)
Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino, CA
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Summary: GKS in 'C' available on Unix, Xenix and MS-DOS

In article <229@vecpyr.UUCP> greg@vecpyr.UUCP (Greg Millar) writes:
>
>>>    (Various people looking for GKS and/or graphics subroutines to
>>>     run on Xenix and Unix)...
>
>Visual Engineering offers a GKS (levels 0b and 2b) for UNIX(tm)...

We looked at all of the GKS's available and ended up going with PRIOR Data
Sciences. Their GKS originated with the ISO group that first designed GKS.
It is level 2c, which means it can handle input from multiple simultaneous
devices (that's the 'c' part), and it is able to handle display-list
segmentation on any output device (if the device is dumb, it is done in
software) (and that's where the '2' is from). We picked PRIOR over GSS, Visual
and the rest because:
	- source is available at a reasonable price (pricing is reasonable
		in general), so we can port to anything we want
	- it runs on Unix, Xenix and MS-DOS
	- it is fast
	- both smart and dumb devices are fully supported
	- device drivers are free 
	- they give good support
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