Date: Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:30:07 -0700 From: "Amancio Hasty Jr." <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: sos@freebsd.org Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vgalib for FreeBSD! Message-ID: <199509270930.CAA02931@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 27 Sep 1995 02:20:18 PDT." <199509270920.CAA23591@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>>> sos@freebsd.org said: > > Oh, well why not use X then for purposes that require > high res/many colors?? everything else is reinventing the wheel. > Besides doing real time graphics in high res isnt going to work > anyways on 90% of the PC hardware out there, no matter what > implementation we use. Well, there is the slight matter of size with X and a process context switch for a batch of graphic operations or a process context switch per operation if you use Xsync mode --- Not my favorite idea of fast graphics. The reason why I like the XFree86 approach is for the existing support for low level graphic primitives such as line drawing , etc... Now a minimal X installation does not take that much space so we could follow that route for installs from CDs. Thats all folks , I peacefully return to my multimedia stuff :) Happy Hacking! Amancio
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