From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 27 20:43:58 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id UAA12268 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:43:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from who.cdrom.com (who.cdrom.com [192.216.222.3]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id UAA12263 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:43:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from covina.lightside.com (covina.lightside.com [198.81.209.1]) by who.cdrom.com (8.6.12/8.6.11) with SMTP id UAA21694 for ; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:43:56 -0800 Received: from hamby1.lightside.net by covina.lightside.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #6) id m0trdin-0009YiC; Tue, 27 Feb 96 20:42 PST Received: by hamby1.lightside.net with Microsoft Mail id <01BB0554.60DDF010@hamby1.lightside.net>; Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:44:24 -0800 Message-ID: <01BB0554.60DDF010@hamby1.lightside.net> From: Jake Hamby To: Jake Hamby , "'Narvi'" Cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" , "'invalid opcode'" , "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 20:33:10 -0800 Encoding: 22 TEXT Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >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... Well any decent video card is going to have: hardware cursor, bit blitting, and line drawing. The better ones are going to have scaling, polygon drawing, maybe rotation. The best (3-D accelerators) may have 3-D polygon drawing, Phong shading, and the like. I'm sure that you could accelerate DPS by fully utilitizing the bit blitting facility (caching fonts in extra Video RAM) possibly scaling and/or rotating them, or even drawing fonts as vector polygons. The point is that I don't think there is any video card that you can feed raw Postscript to, and have it interpret the commands, as you seemed to imply originally. ---Jake