[Info-vax] OpenVMS graphics - once more

[JF Mezei]

On 15-08-24 13:51, Simon Clubley wrote:

> Playing a high resolution video or other rich multimedia content could
> be a problem on VMS, but your basic normal 2D website browsing should
> not be.

Naive question here: If you put a top the line 3D graphics card on an
8086 running VMS, wouldn't enabling fancy apps simply consist of VMS
giving the hooks for those apps to submit the data to the fancy graphics
card for it to render the stuff ?

aka: VMS' role is just to enable the bridge between app and graphics
cards ? Or does VMS need to do actual processing before it hands the
fancy grapghics reequest to the fancy graphics card  ?

If the issue is only of providing the bridge to allow the card to render
3d vctor data into stunning images, then it should be less dificult to
do than embedding the actual rendering software into VMS, right ?