Re: Future of NeWS (was Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow?)

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From: Ian Kemmish
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:00

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barnett@grymoire.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes:

>	Hardware accelerators will be hard to pipeline or parallelize
>		(because pixels are read AND write instead of write only)
>

Since when has Sun's implementation of NeWS ever used a write-only
framebuffer???!?  They even use XOR for doing *overlays*, for God's
sake!

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From: uad1077@dircon.co.uk (Ian Kemmish)
Subject: Re: Future of NeWS (was Re: Why is initial screen I/O so slow?)
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 15:00:17 GMT
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