Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 28 Mar 1998 01:18:36 +0100 (CET) | From | Marek Habersack <> | Subject | Re: GGI Project Unhappy On Linux |
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On Fri, 27 Mar 1998, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > > fine. > > > > > > Cyrix MediaGX - next question. > > Never seen it... ;-( > > It's been around since a few years. And it's being developed further. Seen at > CeBIT. I know, I just never seen it in action - live and in color ;-)
> > That's right, but OTOH I've seen cards (like Diamond Edge 3D) that are > > amazingly fast in gfx mode but the textmode refreshes like it were a 4Mhz XT > > machine... No, thankyou - I mostly work in text mode and I like it that way, I > > just hope it won't have gone with a wind... > > Try to understand my point - not everyone needs antialiased fonts, italics, > > 1000 fonts and nice looking icons (I'm not saying it's bad!) to do ones job. > > My personal view is more like this: > > 1. support text mode on machines that have text mode > 2. emulate (and perform well) text mode on machines that don't have it That's a sensible approach.
> So I wouldn't say you _have_ to use method 2, only when you can't use method 1. I just hope I will still have a choice...
later, marek --- Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think.
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