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From: rshuford@well.UUCP (Richard S. Shuford)
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Subject: PHIGS standard available for comments
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Date: Mon, 17-Aug-87 13:01:46 EDT
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Posted: Mon Aug 17 13:01:46 1987
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Keywords: PHIGS  ANSI  X3  graphics interactive CBEMA


If you have interest in looking at the latest version of the PHIGS graphics
interface (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System), you can
obtain a copy of the version now being put out for public comment by the ANSI
system agencies.  (I don't know precisely what these committees like to be
called now; it used to be "American National Standards Committee X3 on
Information Processing Systems", which has a sub-technical-committee (X3H3?)
that actually wrote the document.)

The document is 

   BSR X3.144 Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics System

Quoting from the blurb:

"Allows graphics application programs to be easily transported between
installations; aids graphics applications programmers in understanding and
using graphics methods; guides device manufacturers on useful graphics
capabilities; and performs many functions currently performed by graphics
applications, thus offloading the graphics application development effort.
The standard defines an application-level programming interface to a
hierarchical interactive and dynamic graphics system.  This standard was
listed for open public review in the November 22, 1985 and November 21, 1986
issues of \Standards Action/.  [An official publication of ANSI.]  It is
being resubmitted for comment owing to substantive changes in the text."

Single copy price: $75    within  the continental United States
                   $97.50 outside the continental United States

Order from   Global Engineering Documents Inc.
             West Coast: 800/854-7179
             East Coast: 800/248-0084

Please include remittance.  This order must be separate from any order for
existing standards.

Send comments (with copy to the Board of Standards Review) to:

     Computer and Business Equipment Manufacturers Association
     Attn: Catherine A. Kachurik
     Suite 500
     311 First St. NW
     Washington, DC  20001-2178

Deadline for comments is September 29, 1987.

This information obtained from the ANSI \Standards Action/, vol. 18, num 16,
(July 31, 1987), page 3.

Comments for the Board of Standards Review should be sent in care of the ANSI
organizational bureaucracy:

     Board of Standards Review
     American National Standards Institute
     1430 Broadway
     New York, NY  10018
     212/354-3300

The general instructions are:

"This section solicits your organization's comments on proposed new American
National Standards and on proposals to revise, reaffirm, or withdraw approval
of existing American National Standards.  Identification of any known or
potential conflicts of draft standards listed with any existing standards may
be included and would be appreciated.  Comment is solicited to ensure that the
views of all interested parties have been given full consideration....

In your response, please specify whether you approve or disapprove of the
proposal as an American National Standard.  If you provide technical comments
with your approval, indicate whether approval is contingent upon considering
them for inclusion (1) in the current proposal or (2) in future revisions of
the current proposal.  If you disapprove, give your reasons."

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.....Richard S. Shuford, Siecor Corp. RD&E, Hickory, NC 28603-0489
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