From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 1999 07:44:10 -0400
From: Russ Cox rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com
Subject: [9fans] Re: 9libs, new sam release...
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	on this" or "are there any Brazil papers yet" and that the answer is
	always something along the lines of "if there was anything, we'd have
	shown it to you" or "big changes are just around the corner, so it's a
	bad time right now", but i feel compelled all the same to ask if there's
	any information on this "newer graphics model". it's been years since

The current graphics model is very close to that used in Inferno,
with the draw operator replacing bitblt.  Draw copies a source
rectangle onto a destination rectangle through a boolean mask.

Unfortunately, big changes are in fact just around the corner.
We're in the middle of redesigning the graphics world and it's
not at all clear what the final result will be.

Russ