From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 17:44:50 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA03056 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:44:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from haldjas.folklore.ee (Haldjas.folklore.ee [193.40.6.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA03033 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 17:44:42 -0800 (PST) Received: (from narvi@localhost) by haldjas.folklore.ee (8.6.12/8.6.12) id DAA04974; Wed, 28 Feb 1996 03:44:52 +0200 Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 03:44:51 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi To: Jake Hamby cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" , "'invalid opcode'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > > I don't think making a X aware Texinfo would be that hard.... > > Yeah, it's called GNU Emacs.. :-) But you're missing the point: How do > you call it from WITHIN your application in a way that makes sense? > > > Display Postscript Extension? As far as I remember it's not the Server > > but hardware - you pass Postscript commands directly to the graphics > > card... Were there such things widely available for the PCs, XFree86 would > > support them, I'm pretty sure. > > Bzzzt! Wrong.. As far as I know, there ARE no video cards that support > Postscript commands directly, even for workstations. Suns and other > commercial Unixes which use the DPS extension, take the Postscript > commands and render them to the screen using normal methods. Now there's > nothing to stop somebody from making a Postscript clone (Ghostscript?) X > server extension, or even licensing DPS for a commercial X server for > FreeBSD, but don't be mistakenly thinking that there's some magic > workstation hardware that makes it possible! > I don't know - and it's overly too late for me on the moment to try to look up something for sure. Yes, I know about the DPS extension to the X - actually, for quite some time already. And I don't believe in magic hardware, no matter what it is claimed to do. But I'm pretty sure about DPS accelerators - it's something I have seen for sure. Not convinced? I know I cannot prove it on the moment but just give a thought to it - no magic hardware is needed (CPU + RAM) much more easier to implement than most of real high grade graphics hardware flying around... > ---Jake > Sander