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- From: dsiebert@icaen.uiowa.edu (Doug Siebert)
- Subject: Re: 32 bit Quickdraw on a Plus----NOT
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 19:30:17 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep8.150041.1@idicl1.idi.battelle.org> sschechter@idicl1.idi.battelle.org writes:
- >In article <1992Sep4.144322.17454@unlinfo.unl.edu>, dcheenne@unlinfo.unl.edu (Dominique J. Cheenne) writes:
- >> There has been a couple of post lately about netters willing to add the
- >> 32-bit Quickdraw software to the System folder of their Pluses or Se's.
- >> (standard or accelerated).
- >>
- >> Can this work? I fail to see how an SE of Plus ROM can manage this task
- >> with their 3 bit Quickdraw definition..?
- >
- > Well, the answer is pretty much NO. The problem is that Color Quickdraw
- >(from which I believe part of 32 bit QD was built) was written when the
- >Mac II came out and it was assumed that all future machines, and hence
- >all machines that could run color, were to be at least 68020 machines.
- >So...color quickdraw, and 32 bit quickdraw, require at least a 68020
- >processor at this point. Since QUICKDRAW GX (the new sexy graphics environment
- >due out next year) WILL WORK ON THE 68000 (!!!!) apple has said (last I heard)
- >that it has no plans of upgrading Color Quickdraw to work on the 68000.
- > I would also assume that they don't support machines running ancient ROMS
- >(under the assumption that any machine running a new processor must at
- >least have a color quickdraw ROM, like the SE/30 and all other machines
- >since the mac plus, so they wouldn't put the color quickdraw code needed
- >into the 32 bit QD code), but of this I'm not sure. It might just be possible
- >to run 32 bit quickdraw on an accelerated plus or SE...but I doubt it!
-
-
- This is EXTREMELY wishful thinking :-) but will Quickdraw GX result in any
- speed increase for drawing (especially bitmap fonts in a terminal program) to
- the screen on a Plus? That would be reason enough for me to move from System
- 6.0.5 to System 7.1 right there...
-
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