🚀 go-pugleaf

Let me say that I support the creation of a separate newsgroup dedicated to 
graphics programming (maybe comp.sys.ibm.pc.graphics).  I have been reading 
this newsgroup for several years and have learned a LOT about graphics 
programming through it.  I am quite gratefull to everybody who has helped me.
However, over the years, IBM graphics hardware programming has been a subject
that CONSISTANTLY generates a lot of traffic.  I support the formation of a 
new newsgroup not because I want to get rid of the subject, but because it
has enough interest to DESERVE its own newsgroup.

Yes, graphics programming is an issue in computer grame programming.  However,
graphics programming is independent of game design.  If there were only a 
handfull of articles on the subject, I would not suggest a new newsgroup.  
Considering, however, how popular a topic it is, I cannot see any reason not
to give it its own newsgroup.

WE ARE NOT TRYING TO GET RID OF GRAPHICS PROGRAMMING ISSUES!  I like the
discussions on tweaking VGA performance, and would continue to read both
Rec.games.programmer AND the new newsgroup.  Some people seem to think that we
are trying to punish them by giving them a separate news group.  Not at all.
It's quite the opposite, in fact.  I divide my harddisk into subdirectories so
as to organize my files into meaningfull divisions.  Just because I keep my
WordPerfect files separate from my Quattro Pro files doesn't mean I think any
less of Quattro Pro.  Similarly, the purpose of separate newsgroups is to 
organize threads into meaningfull divisions.  Quite simply, there is enough
interest in graphics programming to justify a new newsgroup.

Sorry to waste space on Rec.games.programmer on something that has little to do
with game programming.

Matthew Kudzin
mkudzin@ic.sunysb.edu
kudzin@nuclear.physics.sunysb.edu