rit@killdeer.Stanford.EDU (Jean-Francois Rit) (03/16/91)
The Dec solution for 3D graphics on their Risc Decstation5000 is PHIGS. Yet, their graphics demo directory (3d_demo) contain numerous examples, none of them using PHIGS, but, I guess PEX. The reason why I think they do not use PHIGS is that any PHIGS binary contains huge libraries and is at least 7M big. Incidentally, the linking of these programs is very slow and you can use this time to sift through the large, painful and Fortran oriented DECPHIGS documentation My question is: is there such a thing as a PEX implementation for the DEC5000, which would be more lightweight than PHIGS? Is it used internally by DEC? What people should I contact to have more info about this? I will forward a copy of this message to our DEC representative at Stanford, but maybe a post in the news will cut through to the right people more rapidly. J-F Rit