Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!ukma!husc6!faulkner From: faulkner@jmullins.harvard.edu (Don Faulkner) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Need comments on GraphOn OptimaX (or others) Message-ID: Date: 1 Jun 89 16:00:56 GMT References: <851@arisia.Xerox.COM> <3325@ncar.ucar.edu> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Organization: Harvard University Lines: 24 In-reply-to: corbet@mead.uucp's message of 1 Jun 89 14:54:36 GMT In article <3325@ncar.ucar.edu> corbet@mead.uucp (Jonathan Corbet) writes: Jonathan> They do not offer a color version, and probably never will. Jonathan> A serial line would be far too slow for that -- Jonathan> it would make the Sun server look very good indeed! :-) Not necessarily .... the overhead to TRANSMIT a colored line vs. a monochrome one is about nill (with mono, you still have to say what color to draw line (white or black), and how it should be placed (XOR ...) All you would have to do is have an extra byte to say what color you'd like it to be drawn in. Now, color pixmaps would be a different story ;-) -- Don Faulkner Building 1, Room 803 Harvard University, School of Public Health 665 Huntington Avenue Boston, MA 02115 ARPA: faulkner%jmullins@harvard.harvard.edu BITNET: faulkner@harvard Telephone: (617) 732-2297