RE: Re[2]: [9fans] 9x and similar old apps

["Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>]

> When you read the message linked below, it is good
> to know that the references to "brazil" and its "different
> graphics model" actually means something like our
> current Plan 9 and something closer to its current
> graphics model (maybe exactly it; I can't remember
> the details of when our current model was finalized
> vs when I stopped working on that server).  We changed
> the name back at some point.

just to add to the history here, when we changed
the graphics model in summer 1999 to add true-color
support, we made a trivial change to the x server to
keep it working: it continues to do all its work in an 8-bit
color mapped image and then expects the draw driver
to convert from that format to the actual screen format.
as you might imagine, this is painfully slow when you're
constantly redrawing large portions of the screen.
even though it was now uselessly painful on >8-bit
displays, no one cared enough to change it.  as howard
said, vnc has been more than sufficient.