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From: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: X windows on the nExt
Keywords: X windows
Message-ID: <10276@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU>
Date: 13 Apr 89 21:31:58 GMT
References: <2777@rtech.rtech.com> <1781@mas1.mas.UUCP>
Reply-To: hoyt@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Sir Hoyt)
Organization: WanderLand, San Luis Obispo
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In article <1781@mas1.mas.UUCP> jdn@mas1.UUCP (Jeff Nisewanger) writes:
>	Except that Display PostScript doesn't support traditional
>rasterop functions and X11 is centered around using rasterops for
>any kind of special effects like rubber-banding etc. etc.

	True, the current implementations of X servers use
	'traditional rasterops' to render an image on the screen.  
	But from what I know about X, there is nothing that says you 
	have to render the images this way ( am I wrong ?? ).

	An xclient ask the X server to draw a line from
	point A to point B.  How the X server 'draws' the line
	on the screen is of no concern to the xclient.
	

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