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GKS was fairly common on Computer Workstation s in the 1980s and 1990s, and formed the basis of the Atari ST 's graphics libraries ( GEM ). It was little used outside these markets and is essentially unused today. A notable descendant of GKS was PHIGS .

A main developer and promoter of the GKS was Professor José Luis Encarnação , formerly director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics (IGD) in Darmstadt , Germany .

GKS was ANSI standard ANSI X3.124 and ISO standard '''ISO/IEC 7942'''. The language bindings are ISO standard '''ISO 8651'''. GKS-3D (Graphical Kernel System for Three Dimensions) functional definition is ISO standard '''ISO 8805''' and the C Language bindings are '''ISO 8806'''. {Link without Title}

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