On 19/03/2006 the venerable Jasen Betts etched in runes:
My understanding is that most graphics engines have a separate plane for the wallpaper image so that once it's loaded there's no more to do. Wallpaper shouldn't use any of the CPU resources.
Psych test!
Mar 19, 2006
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On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 12:59:13 -0700, Jim Thompson Gave us:
You should both get together so you can jack each other off.
wallpaper image so
CPU resources.
Wow, more memory and dataflow per second than existed in the entire world in 1950, all so my wife can have a picture of a cat on her screen.
John
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 21:38:53 +0100, Zak Gave us:
Won't they be angry with you upon Tralfamador? :-]
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It's amazing what fantasies get revealed...
John
On 19 Mar 2006 23:03:05 GMT, "John B" Gave us:
wallpaper image so
CPU resources.
Somebody needs to tell Anthony FreeTurd that.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:29:30 -0800, John Larkin Gave us:
It's amazing that you think those two retards laughing at each others' jokes means that they were fantasizing.
On 19/03/2006 the venerable John Larkin etched in runes:
wallpaper image so
the CPU resources.
That's probably true. The first computer I used back in the early 60's was an Elliot 805 with a whole 16K bytes of magnetic core storage. It was a real pain when you dropped the punched cards on the floor and had to sort them out, although changing one line of assembler was as easy as putting a new card in the stack.
for the wallpaper image so
any of the CPU resources.
He didn't say it wouldn't use any RAM. Please try reading it next time. At any rate, I think John might be confusing wallpaper with a "texture" in graphics processing.
the wallpaper image so
the CPU resources.
Elliot 805 with a
the punched cards on
as easy as putting
Punched cards were a wonderful improvement over paper tape. You could write the names of subroutines in the top edge of each stack and *see* the structure of your program. And copy stacks of cards for "design reuse." We hacked the PDP-11 assembler (and Focal, too) to read cards, and even punch cards.
After you got a program working, it was prudent to take a marker and a ruler and draw a big diagonal line across the entire program deck, so if you dropped it you'd have a start on getting them back in order.
John
Oh, I wasn't referring to *their* fantasies.
John
60's was an Elliot 805 with a
dropped the punched cards on
assembler was as easy as putting
Didn't anyone put sequence numbers in columns 73 thru 80?
On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 00:26:01 GMT, "Anthony Fremont" Gave us:
There you go, claiming to be able to think again.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:28:49 -0800, John Larkin Gave us:
Oh, I knew that you wouldn't get it.
The Stone Brewery gargoyle, as seen at
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for the wallpaper image so
any of the CPU resources.
an Elliot 805 with a
dropped the punched cards on
assembler was as easy as putting
Align your card stack. Draw a diagonal line across the top of the stack with a dark pen.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006 18:58:14 -0800, "Richard Henry" Gave us:
Cool. You are the Gate Keeper as in "GhostBusters" :-]
Well, I sure didn't.
John
That's about how I look after all that corned beef and Black&Tans on Saturday.
John
sure it can be swapped, you just have to wait a bit for the repairs same as any other swapped application.
Bye. Jasen
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