Re: SoftPC and NeXTSTEP 3.0

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From: J.B. Nicholson-Owens
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 22:15

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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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