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From: toby@r2.cs.man.ac.uk
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: ardent titan
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Date: 15 Sep 89 15:15:44 GMT
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I have an Ardent Titan to use, and I want to exploit its computing power,
really using its display just as a frame buffer. Does anyone know the most
efficient way for me to write to the display? (This is for a Mandelbrot
viewer).

I've heard X is very slow for shipping pixels around.

Thanks!
Toby

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Toby Howard    Computer Science Department, University of Manchester,	
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Toby Howard    Computer Science Department, University of Manchester,	
Lecturer       Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, U.K.
               janet:       toby@uk.ac.man.cs.p1
               internet:    toby%p1.cs.man.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk
               earn/bitnet: toby%uk.ac.man.cs.p1@UKACRL
               uucp:        ...!ukc!mup1!toby       voice: +44 61-275-6274
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