Path: utzoo!censor!comspec!lethe!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!helios!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!rutgers!cbmvax!daveh From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: OS Graphic Card Support: Part II! Message-ID: <18989@cbmvax.commodore.com> Date: 14 Feb 91 23:13:04 GMT References: <28532.27b759c9@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> <1991Feb13.064714.9347@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA Lines: 27 In article <1991Feb13.064714.9347@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >People may make fun of the slowness of Atari VDI, NeXT Display Postscript, >and other DIG systems, but those guys can improve their hardware over time >without losing their apps. Only if their apps use the DIG interface. On the NeXT, you'd expect them all to do so, since such a protected memory system makes it virtually impossible to naturally do otherwise. On the Atari, as I gather, the VDI is unused by lots of programs. >Unfortunately, for superfast realtime gfx work, I can't see any way to ask >programmers to use only DIG on _any_ machine right now . You can always ask programmers to do lots of things, but they won't always do any of them. So more than anything, you have to point out to these guys how evil it is to do The Wrong Thing, and make them understand, without any doubt, way in advance, that doing The Wrong Thing will eventually make their program fail, and they'll have only themselves to blame. If they're willing to accept that, than so be it. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy "What works for me might work for you" -Jimmy Buffett