[net.graphics] Sun-2/160 Color SunStation: Graphics Processor and Graphics Buffer Options

mwherman@watcgl.UUCP (Michael W. Herman) (10/08/85)

On one of Sun's glossy fact sheets with the above title there is a phrase
which reads "...the GP supports all of the 160 graphics standards, including
Pixrects, SunCore, ...".

Can someone (perhaps somebody from Sun) tell me what Sun's *Pixrect* package
is?  I'm currently writing up a description of a device driver-level
abstraction I developed for graphics devices called "pixel rectangles" 
and I should probably know if Pixrects are similar or different.

The best reply gets a reference in my thesis (unless you ask me not to).


Michael Herman
Computer Graphics Laboratory
Department of Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada  N2L 3G1

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