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From: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 03:43:29AM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

    You are labouring under the belief that processors touch the frame
    buffer nowdays. For a current accelerated frame buffer that isnt
    very true.

/s/frame-buffer/hunk-of-memory/

Either way, we have tens of MB of ram where we either put textures,
options or whatever --- the CPU has to meddle with it one way or
another.



  --cw