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Article #149Re: Does PEX-SI support HL/HSR?
From: Marty Hess
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:34
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 04:34
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In article <SINGHAL.92Oct5143059@twins.cs.utexas.edu> singhal@cs.utexas.edu,
(Vivek P. Singhal) writes:
>A quick question ... does the PEX-SI (the PEX implementation
>distributed with MIT's X11R5) support any of the HLHSR modes
>(PHIGS_HLHSR_MODE_{ZBUFF,PAINTERS,SCANLINE,LINE_ONLY})?
And an even quicker answer: No.
Every one of the PEX-SI sponsoring companies was going to "do
their own (hardware-based) thing" for HLHSR, so it was way at
the bottom of the list for the SI. It never made it to the
top before we turned things over to MIT.
It quickly became the most sought-after feature, though! 8-(
(This is sometimes considered corollary #527 to Murphy's Law.)
Marty
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