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From: cme@cloud9.Stratus.COM (Carl Ellison)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: PHIGS early history?
Summary: More people to track down for this history
	Marie Morello, Larry Roberts, Ivan Sutherland
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Date: 7 Apr 89 05:53:45 GMT
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For the early precursors to PHIGS, try people heavily involved with
graphics on the TX-2 circa 1963 to 1966.

In addition to Marie Morello, you might look up Larry Roberts (of ARPANET
fame) and Ivan Sutherland -- both of whom did seminal graphics research
at that time and may have influenced the system design for the TX-2 
calligraphic displays and the time shared driver/data structure behind them.
Even if they weren't the parents of that software design, they should
remember who the parents were.

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