fleischer@gigi.DEC (Bob Fleischer 231-2132 MRO3-2/E7 ECS) (05/25/84)
[This is a re-posting of a note already posted to net.graphics.
I'm posting it in net.micro to reach a wider audience.]
SIGGRAPH CORE and GKS are well-known and loved :-) as two "hardware
independent" interfaces to graphics. They do not seem to be
particularly well suited to doing sophisticated bitmap graphics
applications, however. Are any of you aware of any attempts to
define a "hardware independent" bitmap graphics protocol?
I would suggest that at the user level the Smalltalk "bitblit"
and the Macintosh "quickdraw" interfaces are close to being what
I'm thinking of. Also, I believe that part of the Microsoft
Windows system is a raster-oriented "hardware independent"
graphics interface. Are there any others? Are any standardization
efforts underway for any of them?
Bob Fleischer
Digital Equipment Corporation
2 Iron Way (MRO3-2/E7)
Marlboro, Massachusetts 01752
(617) 467-2132
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