[geeks] super gimp

joshua d boyd geeks at sunhelp.org
Mon Aug 13 20:12:43 CDT 2001


On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 09:06:12PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> Did you ever notice that supercomputers don't have "framebuffers"?
> 
> Or keyboard/mouse ports?
> 
> You'd have to make Gimp client-server... Sounds non-trivial.

X11 baby!  It's already client server.

Further, some super computers do have frame buffers.  Apple had a Cray
with a frame buffer and mouse doing hardware emulation.

And the other day, McGuire mentioned HIPPI framebuffers...

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Joshua D. Boyd
http://www.cs.millersville.edu/~jdboyd/



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