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- From: d88-jwa@dront.nada.kth.se (Jon Wtte)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Re: Curves in QuickDraw GX
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.234752.624@kth.se>
- Date: 24 Dec 92 23:47:52 GMT
- References: <Bzp7x4.90D@iat.holonet.net> <1992Dec24.131341.12976@waikato.ac.nz>
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- In <1992Dec24.131341.12976@waikato.ac.nz> ldo@waikato.ac.nz (Lawrence D'Oliveiro, Waikato University) writes:
-
- >That's a little worrying, considering the sort of hardware it seems to take
- >to run Display PostScript (eg 68040-based NeXTs). Will QuickDraw GX not
- >run on 68000 CPUs?
-
- The 68000 is dead, buried and forgotten. Except the PB100 is
- still the lightest PowerBook around. The screen on the Duos
- sucks whole mountains.
-
- >> No words or tokens are used in the imaging model,
-
- >Well, there'll be another lot of extensions to the QuickDraw picture format,
- >won't there?
-
- QuickDraw GX is orthogonal from QuickDraw. It will co-exist, but
- QuickDraw will not be extended to know anything about GX. At
- least that's my impressino.
-
- --
- -- Jon W{tte, h+@nada.kth.se, Mac Hacker Deluxe --
-
- There's no problem that can't be solved using brute-force algorithms
- and a sufficiently fast computer. Ergo, buy more hardware.
-