OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux ??

• Posted by Bernie <xotron at PCOM.NET> Aug 28, 2000
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On Sun, 27 Aug 2000 21:07:22 -0400, irv <irv at ELLIJAY.COM> wrote:
>Linux takes an entirely different approach to graphics, primarily because
>hardware (like the svga card) has traditionally been off-limits to users.
>This is so users can't crash the system so easily. My personal opinion on
>Linux graphics is that Rob shouldn't even try to produce a Euphoria that
>writes to the svga, but instead work on an interface to xWindows. Even
>Quake III runs just fine in a window, so it's not going to handicap
>Euphoria gamers to _not_ have direct access to the svga.
>(And it'll make Linux veterans less leery of Euphoria)
>
    Irv:

    Thanks,

    I understand that Unix was originaly designed to use character
    based terminals, but this is not the 1960's. Linux should be
    support standard the basic VGA 16 color hardware. As far as
    xwindows that was designed once again to support a REMOTE color
    graphics terminal. I want to build a simple graphics shell that
    runs bash or csh but graphically. The xwindows is too slow and
    too bloated. That why I think that a basic VGA hardware interface
    should be included in Euphoria. Why should I have to run a
    xwindow graphics server and send commands back and forth to it
    just to do basic graphic things. I think that most people
    using Linux are sitting at a computer not a text based terminal.

    PS Training your database users to use a simple graphics interface
       and not xwindows would be user.

    Bernie