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From: doug@terak.UUCP (Doug Pardee)
Newsgroups: net.graphics
Subject: Re: rasterops (an alternate view)
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Date: Mon, 7-Oct-85 14:50:38 EDT
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> > Raster-ops (aka bit-blt) is a fine paradigm for systems like the
> > Macintosh -- medium resolution black-and-white, basically text with
> > some intermixed graphics.  But it is inadequate for any system that
> > would call itself a true "graphics" system.
> 
> If you mean that B+W graphics isn't "true" graphics, come out and say it.

My apologies to Henry and the net -- I placed my quote marks
ambiguously.  What I meant was not:
 ... a "true graphics" system
but rather:
 ... a true "graphics system".

A system which exists for the express purpose of generating graphics
is going to have to be high-resolution color, or it will be run over
by the hordes of "microcomputers" which offer a considerable amount
of graphics capability as just one of their many features.
-- 
Doug Pardee -- CalComp -- {calcom1,savax,seismo,decvax,ihnp4}!terak!doug