Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ames!xanth!nic.MR.NET!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!leah!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!porthos.rutgers.edu!friedman From: friedman@porthos.rutgers.edu (Gadi ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: apple II enhancements Message-ID: Date: 10 Feb 89 16:19:57 GMT References: <890208220053.845007@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> <6477@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <25565@apple.Apple.COM> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 44 In article <25565@apple.Apple.COM> keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin) writes: > erase it, or even clip to it when drawing. Very powerful, yes, yes. However, it > is very difficult to design a hardware chip to recognize and/or manipulate > regions. As far as I know, no one has ever done it. And without such a capa- Oh no, it's never been done!! Must be impossible!!! What did you guys buy that Cray for anyway?? :-) > so that is our problem. Now you know why we or anyone else hasn't come out with > a graphics accelearator for QuickDraw. My question to you all it: How do we > solve this problem? Well, I guess QuickDraw has to go... I got it. Introduce a new graphics standard (or extentions to QuickDraw) that works with GAs, and implement Quickdraw in this standard. This way, software that uses Quickdraw will still run while stuff that needs GA speed will also run. > Keith Rollin --- Apple Computer, Inc. --- Developer Technical Support Gadi PS. (From someone who has an AppleIIe since 1980 and still uses it.) All you guys who want something faster buy an AMIGA. The AMIGA 500 cost ~750 including color monitor and blows the GS away. If you feel loyal to Apple, keep your current system. I've used the GS and its a poor excuse for a machine. Its too slow, and too limited. Its basically the same machine as a IIe (which I already have). Almost nothing takes advantage of the new features, and for good reason. Why bother? If something is to be written from scratch, why not write it for the best machine available? It much more fun to program for a fast machine than limited one. Don't expect a new GS to be much faster than the current one. The way the 65816 accesses memory, we won't have fast enough ram for an 8MHZ machine. If the current screen handeling and memory refresh is continued, an in an 8Mhz machine, memory is accessed at 16Mhz so you would need 60ns memory. -- uucp: {ames,att,harvard,ucbvax,iuvax}!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!friedman arpa: FRIEDMAN@ARAMIS.RUTGERS.EDU