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From: jayk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jay Klippstein)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: meaning of abbreviations
Message-ID: <8479@pogo.WV.TEK.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 90 21:11:31 GMT
References: <1345@maestro.htsa.aha.nl> <4866@convex.convex.com> <1487@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu>
Reply-To: jayk@pogo.WV.TEK.COM (Jay Klippstein)
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In article <1487@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu> fenske@dfsun1.electro.swri.edu (Robert Fenske Jr) writes:
}In article <4866@convex.convex.com> harper@convex.com (David Harper) writes:
}
}>>When I read the articles I'm very often confrontated with words of wich I dont 
}>>know the meaning.
}>>Can anyone tell me the meaning of the following abbreviations:
}>>
}>> - PHIGS
}>No idea
}>
}
}Programmer's (?) Hierarchial Interactive Graphics Standard
}
}

i think it's:

programmer's hierarchal interface to graphic segments