Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!super!rminnich From: rminnich@super.ORG (Ronald G Minnich) Newsgroups: comp.arch Subject: Re: Blitters and design philosophy Message-ID: <613@super.ORG> Date: 10 Aug 88 17:43:51 GMT References: <62659@<1988Aug1> <28200187@urbsdc> Sender: uucp@super.ORG Reply-To: rminnich@metropolis.UUCP (Ronald G Minnich) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center, Lanham, MD Lines: 13 In article <28200187@urbsdc> aglew@urbsdc.Urbana.Gould.COM writes: >So, a working program, with acceptable performance on an already existing >processor, has to be completely reworked in order to even barely run on >a "high performance" graphics system? well, ok, but does that say that we shouldn't have high performance graphics? Or does that say, maybe, that our support tools are quickly running out of gas? I think the latter. Looking at "Hello, world" for X11 written in C (see 'going for baroque' in a recent Unix Review) strengthens the impression. Lessee, where do the followups go? Not here ... ron P.S. 'acceptable performance'. Gee, i never knew there was such a thing. seems its always too slow to me :-)