[Info-vax] OT: Arun Kishan

[JF Mezei]

FredK wrote:

> Today, except for the truly high-end (esp 3D) we've reached a point where 
> indeed that overhead is mostly "noise".  Things are so fast that even common 
> 2D text output is anti-aliased on many Linux implementations.


Haven't today's graphic cards "solved" the problem by requiring the OS
to "talk" to the graphics card in the GL potocol instead of doing the
work themselves ?

With so much of work now offloaded to the graphics card, is there still
much of a need to keep the OS side of the graphics in the kernel for
efficiency purposes ?