Subject: Re: PixelVision documentation
To: Toru Nishimura <nisimura@itc.aist-nara.ac.jp>
From: Thor Lancelot Simon <tls@rek.tjls.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 02/28/2000 00:10:50
On Mon, Feb 28, 2000 at 01:48:24PM +0900, Toru Nishimura wrote:
> 
> - Faster Hardware, Smarter Code - Optimazing X for Graphics
> Accelerators (found in TriAdd/ directory of gatekeeper, it's not known
> when the orignal paper was written.  Supportedly before the
> establishment of SFB design)
> 
> The auther describes how X server for PX/PXG was improved.  It should
> be noted that PX/PXG is pre-X window age hardware and the part of
> burdens came from the fact.  Good literature for those who are
> involves in match-making between hardware accelerator and popular
> software design. 

I don't see how that's possible.  There was _no_ graphical environment
for the machines you could put PX/PXG in except for X, and X on that
platform predated PX/PXG.