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From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS+ and next generation //s {actually ][s :) }
Message-ID: <7391@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Date: 1 Mar 88 21:56:38 GMT
References: <8802271745.AA00234@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8802271745.AA00234@ATHENA.MIT.EDU> MARK@ISIS.MIT.EDU (Mark Kriegsman / VAX Resource Center) writes:
>Yes, it's horrible watching the GS refresh the desktop.

In case anyone isn't aware of it, the basic problem is that there is a lot
more work involved in copying a color-pixel bitmap than in copying the
same number of black-and-white (1-bit) pixels.  Many of our notions about
how the desktop environment should look were based on experience with 1-bit
pixel Macintoshes (or Suns, Blits, etc.), which even with equal processor
speeds would therefore have appeared much faster.