Functional specification of the Sandia Virtual Device Interface (SVDI)
Kellie Erickson, Randall W. Simons · OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) · 1982
The Sandia Virtual Device Interface (SVDI) is a set of graphics functions designed to support graphics packages at Sandia. It is device independent, meaning it can produce plots on any graphics device once an appropriate driver has been written. It is computer independent, meaning it can be implemented on a wide variety of computer systems. The SVDI allows multiple graphics packages on multiple computer systems to share a single driver for each supported graphics device, thus minimizing the amount of code to be written and maintained.