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- From: mlelstv@speckled.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de (Michael van Elst)
- Subject: Re: Chunky Pixels vs. Bitplanes (was: Chunky Chip Set...)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan1.141729.20332@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
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- References: <1992Dec30.115759.22097@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> <paulk.30qj@terapin.com> <jbickers.0mdh@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 14:17:29 GMT
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- In <jbickers.0mdh@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
- > One thing that is becoming noticeable here is that a couple of the
- > people who are trying to say that chunky pixels are not better
- > than planes for the given operations were _also_ involved in the
- > hardware manual thread, on the side of those who don't care about
- > hitting the hardware directly. In my view, they're blowing their
- > credibility with this stuff about planes.
-
- Maybe not. I'm surely not on the side of those who hit the hardware in
- user programs. Hardware access should be limited to the driver software
- which _can_ be optimized for bitplanes in the way I have discussed it.
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- Regards,
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- Michael van Elst
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