- What is a primitive?
  - A command that will process an arbitrarily large amount of data in an efficient manner.
- What is an intrinsic?
  - An intrinsic is a run-to-completion command. It is usually short-lived and does not do any data processing or graphics.
- What types of primitives/intrinsics exist?
  Standard Java Primitives
    A data processing primitive written in Java.
  Graphical Primitives
    A graphical primitive written in Java.
  Host Primitives
    Legacy X-Midas primitives written in Fortran but executed from Java using the XBC option tree.
  Intrinsics
    An intrinsic written in Java.