Re: TurboRez Info

[ltchean@iss.nus.sg (Lim Thye Chean)]

glyn@cs.UAlberta.CA (Reade Glyn Devin) writes:

: When the current window (or screen) is redrawn, the computer needs some
: way to determine which primitives it is supposed to be drawing.  This
: is often done using a display list which is typically a (hierarchical or
: flat) linked list of objects.
: 
: Having a hardware display list processor implies that the CPU is freed from
: maintaining (adding to or deleting from) and traversing this list, thus
: achieving a bit of parallellism.

Isn't this a feature for those object drawing cards instead of one using
the bitmap? There isn't any primitive in a card like TurboRez. That is why I 
am puzzled.

: --Devin Reade		glyn@cs.ualberta.ca

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