paulh (04/21/83)
The Mathematical Centre implementation of GKS in C
The MC in Amsterdam is working on a GKS 7.2 implementation
under UNIX, with language bindings to C and FTN77.
Currently level 1b is working with C.
The official release of the full (level 2c) implementation
is, including documentation, scheduled for the end of this
year. People interested can order (at their own risk) a
prerelease. Then they will get a copy of the implementation
in its current state.
The prerelease will contain level 2b by May and level 2c by
August. Both are with a C-binding.
The FTN77 version (a shell around the C-implementation),
following the official binding (ISO defined), is scheduled
for the end of this year. The official binding is still
being defined.
Some characteristics
The code not including drivers will be organized as a C
library. The object code will stay close to 50 K bytes.
Typically a modest application will run in 50 K bytes
including drivers and segment space. Drivers are included
for Tek 4014, AED 512 and plotters.
Succesfull installations have been done so far on several
configurations, e.g., PDP 11 (23 -45), VAXes, M68000, SIE-
MENS R30, APPOLLO, ..., with UNIX 7 or 4.1 BSD or System 3.
All people entitled to recieve the prrelease will automati-
cally receive the final release as soon as it becomes avail-
able.
The C-binding was designed by Paul ten Hagen and David
Rosenthal. The implementation was designed and implemented
by Behr de Ruiter and Paul ten Hagen.
If you want to receive a release, with sources, mail your
address to me. Many people have already done so. In fact the
massive interest has caused administrative problems, which
we are recovering from.
The MC is entitled to distribute educational licenses at
tape and licence handling costs for $300. Commercial
licences will be handled by TNO, the "owner" of the imple-
mentation.
On receipt of your address, we will mail you contracts, more
information and instructions.
April 20, 1983
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UNIX mail to: mcvax!paulh with your full postal address,
most mail replies I have send out do not arrive, which I
cannot check.
Or write to: Paul ten Hagen
Mathematical Centre
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ, Amsterdam
The Netherlands
April 20, 1983thomas (04/27/83)
GKS is the "Graphic Kernel System" - the European standard graphic interface, soon to be the US standard (probably). It is in some sense a successor to the SIGGRAPH "CORE" system. (Is there some way to direct a followup to another group? This really doesn't belong in net.news.) =Spencer
jnp (04/28/83)
GKS (Graphical Kernel System) is a draft international standard for
two-dimensional graphics software.
>From ANSI Document X3H3/82-111 (10/8/82)
The American National Standards Institute Technical Comittee on Computer
Graphics (ANSI X3H3) voted at its meeting October 7 and 8 in Berkeley,
California, to begin the formal steps required to approve GKS, the Graphical
Kernel System, as an American National Standard.
GKS was originally developed by the West German Standards institute (DIN), and
it has undergone extensive technical review and modification within the
International Standards Organization Working Group on Computer Graphics (ISO
TC97/SC5/WG2), of which ANSI is an active member. This past summer, GKS became
an ISO Draft International Standard.
...
The GKS draft proposed American National Standard is scheduled to be available
for p of a main program, 8 principle subroutines, 60 supporting subroutines
and a variety of application functions and utilities. The program is
coded in FORTRAN 77 and resides on a PRIME 750.
3) Conclusions Reached
At this time the writers of SAM are conducting a study of useleichter (05/01/83)
It is currently Sat Apr 30 18:04:00 1983. The article this is a response to claims to have been posted on Sun May 1 00:01:36 1983. Wow! We DO have some fast links out there, don't we? -- Jerry