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Subject: Re: 'Graphics' of libwy
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2024 21:01:35 -0800
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On 12/19/2024 7:57 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:
> 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 !

No shit! Ross knows how to express it! :^)

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