Comment Re:keep in mind (Score 1) 587
Are you sure about that? X11 was released in September '87. The first iteration of GDI was in Windows 1, in November '85.
You may be right on the release dates. Still, I got my first accelerated X server in 1987 or 1988. It had originally been built for X10, but X11 was quickly ported to it.
That work by telling the X server to draw a load of triangles? I mean, using SVG icons and things that just get rendered and rasterized in software, and then bitblited in hardware aren't particularly pertinent to this discussion.
In short, yes.
(In addition, the libraries will transparently fall back to client-side rendering if the server doesn't support the new rendering model--the user usually can't tell the difference, except for lower performance for complex graphics.)
You may be right on the release dates. Still, I got my first accelerated X server in 1987 or 1988. It had originally been built for X10, but X11 was quickly ported to it.
That work by telling the X server to draw a load of triangles? I mean, using SVG icons and things that just get rendered and rasterized in software, and then bitblited in hardware aren't particularly pertinent to this discussion.
In short, yes.
(In addition, the libraries will transparently fall back to client-side rendering if the server doesn't support the new rendering model--the user usually can't tell the difference, except for lower performance for complex graphics.)
