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

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun May 19 23:39:15 CDT 2002


On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:15:07PM -0500, Bill Bradford wrote:
> On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 04:45:23PM -0400, 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.
> 
> Yes, and out of those, only ONE takes advantage of the big-penis
> video cards you seem so fond of complaining about support for. 8-)

My understanding was that Opera and that other non-IE, non-Mozilla web
browser on OS X took considerable advantage of meaty graphics hardware.

I expect that Gimp 2.0 is going to be likely to be able to take advantage
of good hardware also.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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