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From: david@ics.COM (David B. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: XDrawArc/XFillArc
Summary: XDrawArc on Athena machines
Message-ID: <2363@ics.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 89 13:07:04 GMT
References: <13423@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> <8908111824.AA02023@expire.lcs.mit.edu>
Organization: Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc., Cambridge MA
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In article <8908111824.AA02023@expire.lcs.mit.edu>, rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU writes:
>     In the rubberbanding of circles, the drawing is incredibly slow for the
>     UNFILLED circle.
> If you don't have published fix #3, get it.  Arcs using zero-width lines
> could be made a LOT faster, but we've been busy with other things.

The electronic classroom Athena machines seem to have made the cut over
to R3 earlier this summer, but to a vanilla R3.  We hit this same problem
last week in one of our courses taught using MIT facilities. 
-- 
David B. Lewis david@ics.com ics!david@buita.bu.edu david%ics.UUCP@buita.bu.edu

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