Date   : Fri, 22 Nov 1991 22:14:19 GMT
From   : bonnie.concordia.ca!ccu.umanitoba.ca!umthom61@uunet.uu.net (Adam Thompson)
Subject: Re: DR's GSX

In <JACOBSEN.91Nov22130104@itexjct.itex.jct.ac.il> jacobsen@itexjct.itex.jct.ac.il
(Joel Jacobsen) writes:
>Is anyone knoes  softwares which use Digital Research's GSX (a graphic
>interface)?

Sorry to have to break the bad news :-) ...

The only programs I know of that use GSX (on a Rainbow 100, right?) are 
Lotus 1-2-3 and Lotus Symphony for CP/M.  1-2-3 is version 1.3, and Symphony
is at version 1.0 ....Symphony for MS-DOS is ver.1.1, and simply uses its
own low-level interface to the Graphics card.  I believe DEC released at one
time preliminary versions of graphics software, but it never got off the
ground,
even in the CP/M world.  Note that one can still obtain information on the API
(programming interface) used by GSX programs, but that information on the
actual low-level interface to the graphics card is still classed as 
'proprietary' by DEC, and is thus unavailable.  They will, however, supply
examples of assembly interfacing in MS-DOS !! (Go figure...)

Adam Thompson
 umthom61@ccu.umanitoba.ca

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