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- From: jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.programmer
- Subject: Re: SoftPC and NeXTSTEP 3.0
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 22:15:40 GMT
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- Scott Hess writes
- > I've heard this at various times, too. What's the scoop?
-
- According to NeXTWORLD Extra, this capability of being faster on
- screen writes is due to some software whiz at NeXT (sorry, I don't have
- the article ahndy so I can't quote sources) speeding up a display object.
- This speedup will only affect color machines because the speedup deals
- with handling images of a bitplane-depth greater than the black & white
- machines can display.
-
- It should be a standard part of the object(s) in question (whatever got
- the turbo charge) and (from how I understood the article) will "just
- work". The article didn't mention any special programming necessary to get
- this to work.
- --
- -- Jeff
- -- jeffo@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu
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