| authors |
Goebel, Martin and Kroemker, Detlef |
| year |
1986 |
| title |
A Multi-Microprocessor GKS Workstation |
| source |
IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications July, 1986. vol. 6: pp. 54-60 : ill. includes bibliography. |
| summary |
Implementers of graphical application systems hesitate to interface their applications to the GKS standard not only because GKS functionality seems to be less sufficient for a particular application but also because the use of GKS -- as it is offered in portable software implementations -- usually means a loss of system performance. This article describes an installation of GKS on a multi-microprocessor that is based on functional distribution principles as well as on the object-oriented distribution of a graphics system. The main concepts and advantages of a GKS workstation using more than one processing unit with at least one output pipeline are described. The flexibility of this approach opens a perspective view to a GKS workstation that is configurable to application requirements |
| keywords |
standards, GKS, graphs, systems, hardware |
| series |
CADline |
| references |
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