Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 03:44:51 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, "'invalid opcode'" <coredump@nervosa.com>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960228033308.4890B-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <Pine.AUX.3.91.960227151447.25917B-100000@covina.lightside.com>
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On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > On Tue, 27 Feb 1996, Narvi wrote: > > > > I don't think making a X aware Texinfo would be that hard.... > > Yeah, it's called GNU Emacs.. :-) But you're missing the point: How do > you call it from WITHIN your application in a way that makes sense? > > > Display Postscript Extension? As far as I remember it's not the Server > > but hardware - you pass Postscript commands directly to the graphics > > card... Were there such things widely available for the PCs, XFree86 would > > support them, I'm pretty sure. > > Bzzzt! Wrong.. As far as I know, there ARE no video cards that support > Postscript commands directly, even for workstations. Suns and other > commercial Unixes which use the DPS extension, take the Postscript > commands and render them to the screen using normal methods. Now there's > nothing to stop somebody from making a Postscript clone (Ghostscript?) X > server extension, or even licensing DPS for a commercial X server for > FreeBSD, but don't be mistakenly thinking that there's some magic > workstation hardware that makes it possible! > I don't know - and it's overly too late for me on the moment to try to look up something for sure. Yes, I know about the DPS extension to the X - actually, for quite some time already. And I don't believe in magic hardware, no matter what it is claimed to do. But I'm pretty sure about DPS accelerators - it's something I have seen for sure. Not convinced? I know I cannot prove it on the moment but just give a thought to it - no magic hardware is needed (CPU + RAM) much more easier to implement than most of real high grade graphics hardware flying around... > ---Jake > Sander
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