Re: Mac OS X

From: Austin Gonyou (austin@digitalroadkill.net)
Date: Fri May 10 2002 - 14:55:36 EDT

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    No, it's not a *Linux* term, it's a hardware term, just the same way
    OpenWindows uses a FBdevice for drawing, but uses X+FB. That would be on
    solaris and Earlier AIX machines.

    On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 03:34, F J Franklin wrote:
    > > What does OSX use for rendering then? Direct FB or something?
    >
    > That's a very Linux term, isn't it? I dare say Quartz Graphics uses the
    > frame buffer, but I can't say for sure.
    >
    > AbiWord for XDarwin is a traditional UNIX/GTK build, GTK is a traditional
    > X11 build, X11 for MacOSX is XDarwin which uses Quartz Graphics when
    > running in parallel with MacOSX (works some other way on raw Darwin, I
    > think)...
    >
    > Frank
    >
    > Francis James Franklin
    > F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk
    >
    > "No, she really likes me. She told me I look like Britney Spears, and why
    > would you say that to somebody you don't like?"
    > --- Elle Woods
    >
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