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From: ken@dali.gatech.edu (Ken Seefried iii)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: UNIX sys V4.0
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Date: 29 Oct 90 17:46:17 GMT
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In article <15404@cbmvax.commodore.com> ag@cbmvax.commodore.com (Keith Gabryelski) writes:
>
>>6) Does the X Windows server process allow concurrent access to the
>>display hardware (chipmemory, blitter, etc) via a resource
>>sharing/locking method?
>
>Yes (for chip memeory).  The blitter is not used for X.
>

[ possibly ignorant question from a non-Amiga-literate X person ]

You have hardware bitblt and don't use it for X?  Why not?

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