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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.misc:257 comp.sys.apollo:14263 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.sys.apollo Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!caen!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!cs.ubc.ca!unixg.ubc.ca!kakwa.ucs.ualberta.ca!acs.ucalgary.ca!cpsc.ucalgary.ca!ajfcal!novatel!hpeyerl From: hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (Herb Peyerl) Subject: Re: NetBSD...Now for the 68k Message-ID: <1993Apr26.163221.7764@novatel.cuc.ab.ca> Followup-To: comp.os.386bsd.misc,comp.sys.apollo Sender: news@novatel.cuc.ab.ca (The UseNet USER) Organization: "NovAtel Communications Ltd. Calgary, Alberta, Canada" X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL8] References: <1r9j8fINNoai@harpo.uccs.edu> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1993 16:32:21 GMT Lines: 21 Joel M. Ward (jmward@elbert.uccs.edu) wrote: : seems like the graphic system shouldn't matter too much for just : straight UNIX. wouldn't that be a problem for X support? : or maybe not, i don't know too much about macs or internal X stuff... The assumption you're making is that Apollo cards are just like PC cards where you can tell them to put a character on the screen and they will. This is a bad assumption. Apollo display cards are raster cards and so you have to manually draw each pixel. (essentially; actually you blit them line by line but whatever...) So; if you wanna see letters on the screen then you have to do graphics operations.. The cards were designed to do graphics in the first place as opposed to PC's where graphics capabilities was a kludge that no one has really fixed... -- "I was early to finish | hpeyerl@novatel.cuc.ab.ca <Reply-To> | I brew | I was late to start, I | peyerlh@cuug.ab.ca | there- | might be an adult, but | #define JANITOR "Network Anal-yst" | fore I | I'm a minor at heart." | JANITOR, NovAtel Communications Ltd.| AM. |