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- From: pcb@gunfight.austin.ibm.com (Peter C. Bahrs)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
- Subject: Re: AARRRRGG! No one can answer this question!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.172256.485@awdprime.austin.ibm.com>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 17:22:56 GMT
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- In article <Brts9v.1ss@news.cso.uiuc.edu> marca@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen) writes:
- >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.
-
- It seems to me that with the push to multiprocessor systems, those with
- so much horsepower that a coprocessor assist better be very fast to be of use,
- that a dumb (linear) frame buffer access is going to be in demand. AIX on
- intel platform gives you direct access.
- >
- >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
- >
- >--
- >Marc Andreessen
- >Software Development Group
- >National Center for Supercomputing Applications
- >marca@ncsa.uiuc.edu
-
-
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