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Subject: [9fans] was 8½ slow and that lead to rio?
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 16:55:26 +0100
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IIRC, when 8½ was gone it was mainly to allow applications
to access the graphics device without having to go through the
window system. I'm wondering if that made 8½ so slow that the
change was needed. Or was the interface change from bitblt to the
draw operator the actual reason?