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From: andrea@hp-sdd.HP.COM (Andrea K. Frankel)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: GKS on IBM-PC (and more)
Message-ID: <1015@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 10-Nov-87 13:56:23 EST
Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.1015
Posted: Tue Nov 10 13:56:23 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 12-Nov-87 22:50:35 EST
References: <6694@ut-ngp.UUCP> <4022@gssc.UUCP>
Reply-To: andrea@hp-sdd.UUCP (Andrea K. Frankel)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard, San Diego Division
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Summary: So you sell "CGI", do you?

In article <4022@gssc.UUCP> jdm@gssc.UUCP (John D. Miller) writes:
>contact our sales people or go to an ibm software outlet.  ibm sells our
>CGI, VDI, CGM, and GKS.  we have drivers for a plethora of displays, printers,
>plotters, cameras, input devices, etc.  ibm sells the drivers for ibm products,
>of course, but we have driver packages available.

GSS does indeed have implementations of the CGM and GKS standards,
and they have been selling their private device interface (VDI) for
some time.

However, I find it pretty amazing that you sell "CGI", when the CGI
standard hasn't even been completed!  X3.161-198x just went through its
first ANSI public review, and DP9636 completed its first ISO DP ballot
this summer.  We know that there will be another interim draft
generated this coming spring, and a second DP ballot (and second ANSI
public review) starting some time next summer or fall (a year from
now).  The current schedule means that CGI won't be technically frozen
for at least a year, and possibly closer to two.

Would you care to clarify for the net-reading graphics community just
exactly WHAT your "CGI" product is?


Andrea Frankel, Hewlett-Packard (San Diego Division) (619) 592-4664
	Representing Hewlett-Packard on ASC X3H3.3
	Representing the U.S. on ISO TC97/SC24 CGI and CGM Rapporteur Groups

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