ksitze@nmsu.edu (360) (08/03/89)
In article: <mjkobb@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU's message of 2 Aug 89 19:05:39 GMT> Michael writes: >One thing, though, for both of you. Anti-aliasing is going to require some >computation. If you watch the demo that apple has (or the one I saw, anyway) >of the new outline fonts, it starts printing slowly, then speeds up as it >begins to repeat characters it's already built. The demo was "filmed" on a >Mac II (I don't know if it was a IIx or IIcx, but I suspect that it was) and it >was still fairly slow. Now imagine throwing in all the computation for the >anti-aliasing. The first characters are going to crawl. Displays with, say, >24-bit depth would be particularly hard-hit, I think. And Quick Draw won't >be quick if it does anti-aliasing, either, since it doesn't use a build-once- >then-reuse process... I go the newest MacTech Quarterly in today, it said that Apple intends to put a RISK processor to work doing all the computations for QuickDraw that is begin done by the 680x0 right now. So it would appear that the slow anti-aliasing available right now will speed up rather soon. I can hardly wait, maybe I won't turn to a NeXT machine if Apple puts something else beside just a processor in their Macs. I have a real problem with someone in a position to do so much with a machine and then do so little. Apple, are we going to see DMA read/writes for disk drives, blitter chips, high speed DA/AD converters, etc. in future Macs? 'twould be nice! And how about putting a real 680x0 processor into the Macs instead of these 8-16 MHz things? (Of course this will probably double the cost of the Mac knowing Apples price standards...) -Kelesi -- +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | From the Macintosh of: Kevin L. Sitze. This is ME: ksitze@NMSU.edu | +------------------------------------------------------+-------------+ | The difference between intelligence and stupidity is | Is this | | that intelligence has a limit. -- anonymous | better? | +------------------------------------------------------+-------------+