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From: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Color QuickDraw (really NAPLPS, CGM, et al)
Message-ID: <5970@well.UUCP>
Date: 15 May 88 22:49:43 GMT
References: <9708@apple.Apple.Com> <97800007@silver> <5252@xanth.cs.odu.edu>
Reply-To: ewhac@well.UUCP (Leo 'Bols Ewhac' Schwab)
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In article <5252@xanth.cs.odu.edu> kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
>In article <97800007@silver> backstro@silver.bacs.indiana.edu writes:
>>I think that the NAPLS system is the best way to go in terms of structured
>>color graphics on the Amiga.   [ ... ]
>>
>Again, nice looking on the surface, but a long term mistake.  "NAPLPS"
>means just what it says: "NORTH AMERICAN Presentation Level Protocol
>Syntax;" [ ... ]
>
>To me, a better idea is to use the official CGM international
>standard, and provide drivers (almost surely long ago written) to
>convert from CGM to the two TV "standards."  [ ... ]

	Okay, where do I grab a copy of the CGM standard?

	I want us to do this right.  Unlike the IPC and "resources"
discussions, there is prior art here.  Hence, we can simply draw on the
combined expertise of those who walked the path before us, write the code,
and Poof!  We've got a killer setup.  We may even get some CAD companies
saying to themselves, "No $#!+!  They support CGM?  And they cost *how
much*?  Geez, we could put one on everyone's desk for that..."

>Keep trying!  This stuff is more fun to read than the flicker fixer wars.
>
	I'm not going to say anything; I'm trying to mature...		:-)

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