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Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:30:18 -0500
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On 25/04/2012, John Floren <john@jfloren.net> wrote:
> There are 3 options:
>
> 1. Suck it up and use the 64-bit system that is available
> 2. Write drivers for your hardware (this is the comedy option)
> 3. Complain on 9fans for a while before eventually giving up (this is
> the popular option)
4. Keep to Linux and curse the world in wrath.

I'd shut up if no one _asked_ me about it, but some did.

> I don't even know what you're attempting to imply with that
> calculation at the end, though. What does the onboard graphics card
> have to do with network bandwidth?

It doesn't; however graphics are drawn, whether in hardware or
software, they must be sent to terminal.

> If you run a big drawterm/cpu
> window, it won't be that high of a data rate

How?

> and it won't use the
> graphics card anyway.

Then it will be slow. Software graphics are slow.