Squeak on frame buffer

Tim Rowledge tim at sumeru.stanford.edu
Tue Sep 11 17:43:38 UTC 2001


"Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> is widely believed to have written:

> Overall, if you just want Squeak, then X is an aweful lot of bloat
> compared to a frame-buffer interface.
>
Exactly; now that the FXBlt stuff is pretty much ready for primetime (it
is, isn't it Andreas? Has it all got into the mainstream yet? Can I look
forward to making the Acorn's display be an external littleendian
bitmap?) you should be able to just have the framebuffer be the display
bitmap.

tim

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