[geeks] A Real OS? (was: Re: my capitalization.. etc.)

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 03:10:35PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 01:45 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> >On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 12:13:38PM -0700, Peter L. Wargo wrote:
> >>
> >>Exactly.  Not everybody uses a workstation for graphics, Josh. :-)
> >
> >But an awefull lot of people do.  Web browsers, bzflag, occasional 
> >gimping.
> 
> Web browsing and gimp are 2-d, and do not rtequire massive 3-d 
> performance.

But todays 3D accelerators are also quite usefull for things like alpha
compositing and anti-aliasing.  OS X is supposed to make extensive use of
both, experimental versions of Qt do the same.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd