Business Graphics Add New Dimension to Decision Support

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Graphics systems are nearing an estimated $10 billion sales in the total business graphics market. PicSure, by Precision Visuals Inc., is a business graphics program for VAX and IBM systems which includes pie charts, vertical and horizontal bar charts, X-Y plots, text charts, and scattergrams, as well as more than fifty predefined layouts. The Lotus 1-2-3 program, from Lotus Development Corp., permits graphics to be presented within a program, rather than from a separate program. SAS Institute Inc. offers SAS-GRAPH which converts data into graphics including contour, two- and three-dimensional grids and maps, bar, pie, star and block charts, and choropleth, surface, prism, and block maps. Hardware vendors are producing software packages that combine graphics with network data base communications, spreadsheets and word processing. Photographs of workstations and graphics products are included.

Business, Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation, Computer aided design, Graphics software, Decision support systems, Plotters, Business graphics, Software Packages, Decision Support Software, Printers, Computer-Aided Design, Plotter, IVISS Manager, PicSure, Lotus 1 2 3, SAS GRAPH, GrafTalk, Retrieval 36, Tektronix 4100

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Two New Graphics Displays Enhance IBM PC for Scientific and Engineering Applications

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IBM introduced two new graphics displays for us on IBM personal computers, the IBM PC Professional Graphics Display and Professional Graphics Controller. Applications include the generation and display of color graphics for scientific and engineering uses. Up to 256 colors can be displayed at the same time from a palette of 4,096 colors. The Graphics Display costs $1,295 and the Graphics Controller costs $2,995. They are part of IBM's new Personal Computer Engineering-Scientific Series. Other parts of the series were also introduced. A photograph of an IBM PC is included.

Engineering, Color, New Product, product announcement, Controllers, Displays, IBM PC Professional Graphics Controllers, IBM PC Professional Graphics Display

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