Re: Amiga and Retina ZII

[tron%lyssa.owl.de@localhost (Matthias Scheler)]

In article <19990225114815.A12513@localhost>,
        Bernd Sieker <bsieker%techfak.uni-bielefeld.de@localhost> writes:
> I'd like to know, though, why support for it has been dropped.

Because it requires a heavily modified X11 server which nobody maintains
these days.

Of course you can write a kernel driver which uses the MMU to turn the
Retina ZII into a linear frame buffer suitable for "Xamiga" but it will
probably be quite slow.

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