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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.tech,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
Subject: Re: Retargetable graphics. Temporary Stop-gaps.
Keywords: rtg,iff,24bit,video hardware
Message-ID: <661@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 21 Dec 90 08:32:02 GMT
References: <12437@life.ai.mit.edu> <16612@cbmvax.commodore.com> <7307@sugar.hackercorp.com> <1990Dec19.175634.19203@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> <7337@sugar.hackercorp.com>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany
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In article <7337@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:
>In article <1990Dec19.175634.19203@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@wookumz.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>   The sad fact of it is, dragable screens, viewports, super bitmap screens,
>> sprites aren't availible on most framebuffers.
>
>How much of this is needed to extend the workbench screen, the way a
>multiheaded Mac or Sun does it? You don't need draggable screens, for
>certain.  Nor superbitmap screens.

But this reminds me a little of the phrase "do we really need multitasking?".
Well, all these little details make up the Amiga as it is. And I wouldn't
like to trade in any existing feature, that would be a drawback.

> And you could probably get away without
>having a sprite for the mouse.

Hmm, perhaps we really could live with this. But then you need a 
tremendous software overhead to make sure that every program that
manipulates the pointer still works the same.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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