[Info-vax] DECwindows predecessor?

[osuvman50 at gmail.com]

On Tuesday, May 21, 2019 at 2:47:49 PM UTC-4, Colin Butcher wrote:
> You probably mean VWS (VAXstation Windowing Software, I think). It was 
> pretty good and quite lightweight (as was needed back then), but 
> decidedly proprietary, which is why most people back then used GKS 
> (Graphics Kernel System) to write software for workstation display systems.
>

There were 2 frameworks for graphics software: GKS, favored in Europe; and SIGGRAPH Core, popular in the States. GKS was geared toward exposing the hardware capabilities it saw to the application while SIGGRAPH assumed idealized virtual display and input devices.