IBM Corp demonstrated imaging extensions to its X Window software in an implementation produced by New York-based software house Congruent Corp. The X Imaging Extension is the imaging software for X submitted to the X Consortium by Digital Equipment Corp as a proposed standard. It speeds up graphics applications by enabling X terminals to manipulate images locally, and includes image rendition facilities support ing bi-tonal, grayscale and colour images. The work is currently undergoing a review process, and is expected to be completed by the end of the year. Congruent Corp licenses XIE for the RS/6000 from $500, and licensees will receive free of charge software upgrades as the standards process progresses. Aside from XIE, other work at Congruent includes the development of high-performance Windows display drivers with Asian language and multimedia extensions.
