like the text-only console, you mean?

like the text-only console, you mean?

Posted Sep 1, 2005 14:00 UTC (Thu) by smoogen (subscriber, #97)
In reply to: like the text-only console, you mean? by xoddam
Parent article: Linux and desktop graphics

Because it is extra bits that have to be kept around, tested and ported for cards. A lot of the newer cards do not have a 2D API in them because it is too suboptimal for the cards CPU. I think I heard one engineer put it as "Its like putting a trailer hitch on a dragster."

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