> linux, would be reasonably general purpose. In particular, being able
> to allocate large pages (64 KB tiles on O2) at any time, no matter how
I assume you mean physical tiles. 64K tiles on Linux is actually quite tricky
- creating them and allocating them is ok its the fact theres no current
vm way to say move this and make me a tile. (the kernel allocated objects
arent a problem as the kernel can allocate drawing from tiles itself)
> In graphics, if linux winds up with an IRIX-compatible kernel
> graphics driver on some SGI boxes, the IRIX Xsgi, libgl.so, and
> libGL.so platform-specific binaries could run on linux. Note that
This is certainly a very good starting basis but its not a "complete"
answer. Also of course one day Indy + IRIX always together wont be an
automatic fact - I dont actually believe it is in the EEC right now anyway
Alan
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