“Nova*gks, a distributed implementation of the Graphical Kernel System” by Waggoner, Tucker and Nelson
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- Nova*gks, a distributed implementation of the Graphical Kernel System
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NOVA*GKS is an implementation of the Draft International Standard Graphical Kernel System (GKS), built using a distributed architecture. The specifications for GKS present an implementor with many design tradeoff decisions. The implementors of NOVA*GKS have analyzed those tradeoffs and created a distributed design which allows users of the package to design applications which can perform efficiently on many different graphics hardware configurations.
References:
1. “dpANS GKS X3H3/83-2541”, ANSI X3H3 Project 362, New York, New York (1983).
2. “ISO/DIS 7942 Information Processing – Graphical Kernel System (GKS) Functional Description: GKS Version 7.2”, ISO/TC97/SC5 /WG2 N163 (1982).
3. Hopgood, F. R. A., D. A. Duce, J. R. Gallop and D. C. Sutcliffe. Introduction to the Graphical Kernel System (GKS), Academic Press, London (1983).
4. GSPC. “Status Report of the Graphics Standards Planning Committee”, Computer Graphics 13, 3 (August 1979).
5. Simons, Randall W. “Minimal GKS”, Computer Graphics 17, 3, pp. 183-189 (July 1983).
6. Vistagraphic 4000 Series Graphic Processor Programmer’s Reference Manual. Sanders and Associates, Nashua New Hampshire (1983).
