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- From: marca@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
- Subject: Re: AARRRRGG! No one can answer this question!!!
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 04:53:53 GMT
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- ddt@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (David Taylor) writes:
- : Oh god, I want to kill someone.
-
- Well, that's a productive start.
-
- : Were the IBM developers so boneheaded as to *not* memory
- : map the display?
-
- Believe it or not, many modern graphics displays aren't memory-mapped.
-
- In any case, the Guard Dogs have a valid question: why would you want
- to do this? Why not open a window? The whole point behind modern displays
- and their underlying software support is that you don't _have_ to directly
- work with screen memory to get something done. What functionality do you
- hope to gain by doing this?
-
- Marc
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- Marc Andreessen
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- National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
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