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From: bmug@garnet.berkeley.edu (BMUG)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: QuickDraw hardware acceleration
Keywords: QuickDraw, hardware speed ups
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Date: 1 May 89 16:34:06 GMT
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In article <10292@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> flatmas@ladder.cs.orst.edu (Scott Timothy Flatman) writes:
>Anyway to
>make a short question long, why doesn't Apple finally put some graphic(s)
>chips into its Mac line?

There are persistent rumors that Apple is planning to do this on future
versions of their machines (using an AMD29000 as the graphics processor).
Your guess is as good as mine as to the veracity of these rumors [or how
much such a machine will cost :-)].  If the other rumors about outline
fonts and other PostScript-like features in QuickDraw2 are true, such
speedups gained by using a dedicated graphics processor will probably
be welcome (judging by the *relative* slowness of Display PostScript
on machines without such a processor).

John Heckendorn
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