[Suns-at-Home] E3500

[Ken Seefried]

der Mouse writes:
>
>  Yes, if you want
> a rendering engine, you probably won't be satisfied with *any* SBus
> framebuffers; they mostly predate that sort of thing, and the ones that
> do have them have engines from their era. 
> 

Didn't Jim Gettys put out a paper that showed, in essence, rendering engines 
from that era were so useless that it was better (for X, at least) just to 
treat it as a dumb frame buffer and let the CPU do the pixel pushing?  Or 
maybe he was talking about an even earlier generation. 

Ken