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- From: lee@sq.sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin)
- Subject: Re: Seeking CG6 help.
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.213628.26589@sq.sq.com>
- Organization: SoftQuad Inc., Toronto, Canada
- References: <1992Aug20.104612.1@cc.utah.edu> <l98m0fINNl99@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 21:36:28 GMT
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- eyring@cc.utah.edu writes:
- >Seeking CG6 HELP.
- >
- > We are looking for help in reading/writing directly to the frame buffer
- > on the CG6. The man pages hint that you can mmap the device.
- [...]
-
- herzog@dogwalk.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Herzog - SMCC System Software) writes:
- >This is considered anti-social behavior and is not supported.
- and goes on to give some excellent and, I thik, valid reasons why one
- shouldn't. He then said:
-
- >If you have an application that absolutely must have direct hardware
- >acess, and you're really serious, you do have the option to pay $75k
- >(or whatever) for source and go have a ball.
-
- The OpenWindows server source is U.S.$5,000, not $75,000. The rest comes
- from deskset ($25,000) and tooltalk ($40,000).
- I can give you the number of someone to call if you decide to do this.
-
- But I'd investigate using a GX board, or the XDirect lib first.
- Unfortunately, XDirect doesn't speed up NeWs applications.
-
- Lee
-
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