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From: Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: 'Graphics' of libwy
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:57:33 -0600
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On 12/19/2024 9:53 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
....
> It's mind-boggling that for hundreds of years at
> least there were printed books, mass-printed or
> since the invention of printing presses and movable
> type, and that for at least 150 years there's been
> photography, for where the graphical renditions
> were painting or drawing, or statuary or what,
> that since about 25 years ago there are small-screen
> full-motion high-resolution displays, each different
> yet all same, yet of course it is still in a sense
> pixels, blits, drawing primitives, and sprites,
> vis-a-vis the procedural and high-level procedural,
> sadly an entire generation is myopic and reading has
> suffered, I think screens should be banned for youth,
> so they have to learn how to read to get their giggles,
> though that's impractical, point being that somebody
> needs to know the entire stack of the things at
> least in gross detail that thusly the efforts of
> "make a new one", while daunting, at least have
> a total embarrassment of computing resources the
> hardware, that if all the lately bloatware and
> various other kinds of wares that are of no interest
> to the user of the device, were gone, then implementors
> of course can make astounding demos, and even simple
> entire systems that are all quite bog-standard.
....

That is all ONE sentence.  I am impressed !

Lynn