Re: My First Computer (was Computing Editorial)

[Cameron Kaiser <ckaiser@floodgap.com>]

Anders Carlsson <anders.carlsson@mds.mdh.se> writes:

>>But if you want to hand-craft some cool program that works only 
>>with one flavor of video card and CPU, go right ahead.

>I think that is Xbox programming, or at least it has the potential to 
>be. Possibly a Macintosh could also be programmed this way, although 
>you do have a limited range of supported hardware change options there.

Not really. Macs have had more-or-less device independent graphics drivers
for some time, from QuickDraw to RAVE to OpenGL (and now Quartz).

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