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From: jimomura@lsuc.UUCP (Jim Omura)
Newsgroups: net.micro.68k
Subject: Re: CD ROMs to use 68000 OS9
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Date: Thu, 15-May-86 20:19:40 EDT
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Posted: Thu May 15 20:19:40 1986
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Summary: VDI/GKS/GSS/NAPLPS, the world ....


     OK.  VDI isn't as bad as I thought.  The explanation I got
earlier seems to have been for the IBM GKS.  How thorough is VDI?
NAPLPS is extensible and already defined for 3 dimensional work.
It's current resolution is up to 4K by 4K and is conceptually
relative based on a 1 * 1 (* 1) screen (a "unit screen").  There
are complete character sets including symbols for Copyrights and
Trade Marks.  There are graphics characters and color and texture
capabilities.  You can buy NAPLPS terminals (Sony has a particularly
nice one) or convert many Personal Computers such as IBM's and Apples
and Commodore 64's (this latter isn't apparently a wonderful
NAPLPS machine, but it's adequate).

     It seems to me that they overlap in philosophy at the least.


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