Subject: Re: LCG acceleration possible afterall ?
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.org>
From: Toru Nishimura <locore32@gaea.ocn.ne.jp>
List: port-vax
Date: 04/09/2004 21:51:02
Blaz Antonic blaz.antonic@siol.net said;

> ...
> (LCG) be able to run X server operating as dumb
> framebuffer by the time 2.0 comes out.
>
> The next logical step would be hardware acceleration of 2D functions 
> ...
> It is reasonable to assume we now know which command packet sequences
> perform the most crucial console and X server operations, meaning some
> LCG HW acceleration is quite possible eventually.

LCG was designed for VMS DECwindow (DEC commercial name of MIT X).
The LCG HW design reflects VAX virtual memory architecture to fit with VMS
internal.

Toru Nishimura/ALKYL Technology