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Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port
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- Subject: Re: gEDA-user: PCB Gtk port
- From: Joshua Boyd <jdboyd@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 11:41:36 -0500
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On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 11:18:27PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> >However, it should still be optional for people who want to use older
> >machines.
>
> Howabout people who are running NEWER systems that just don't support
> the nonstandard extensions that some Linux systems do?
I'm thinking anti-aliasing in theory. Newer systems should be able to
do anti-aliasing just fine. That there are currently issues doesn't
mean that newer machines can't do anti-aliasing, just that it is poorly
implemented. I was supporting making it entirely optional, even if it
gets fixed to work nicely on new hardware.
Now, call me silly, but I like to see software running on older
machines. Like, SS10s. Is it that bad to view it as a bug when
software won't work well on older machines? It wasn't long ago that I
could still count on new software to run nicely on 40mhz machines, but
the past few years that has rapidly been changing. I have software that
requires 10 times the computer power without giving me 10 times the
capabilities. It's not like I expect stuff like auto routing to be
superfast on older machines, but I don't see why most of the system
can't.
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Joshua D. Boyd
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