Re: Programming graphic systems

[Paul Zacharzewski <paul@ipquickly.com>]

Olivier Scalbert wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When playing with my GPS, I was thinking of the beautiful graphic 
> systems used in safety critical environment (medical, aircraft, ATC, ...).
> I assume lots of them must be written in Ada. I was asking myself how 
> are they programmed mainly at the graphic level. Does the application 
> part use a graphic toolkit provided by the graphic board manufacturer or 
> do you have to program all the graphic primitives yourself in Ada (as 
> Bresenham line algorithm, ...) and written to the raster memory (which 
> must be very cool!) ?
> 
> Thanks for your info,
> 
> Olivier
I remember reading about an X11 system rewritten in Ada, a while ago.
Does anyone else knows something about this?

Paul.