I do understand DirectX... I don't see it as additional weight in general use...
What I am saying is this: If we were to make an operating system with the look and feel of the SAM Coupe, DirectX would probably not be needed IF AND ONLY IF we were to replace it with a scheme to access the multitude of graphics cards in the "PEEK/POKE" way of the SAM! Justin. > -----Original Message----- > From: Aley Keprt [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 1:56 PM > To: sam-users@nvg.ntnu.no > Subject: Re: SAM 2000? > > > > > OK, Aley. "bulky stuff" is probably an exaggeration. I was talking about > > streamlining the distribution for efficiency, taking out stuff that > probably > > won't be needed for the proposed SAM2000 OS. Otherwise, we might aswell > just > > have the emulator running on Linux and be done with it... > > Winux or Lindows, that's how I see it. > You probably misunderstand DirectX, when you see it as an additional > weight. > The contrary is truth, DirectX is allows you to run the software on any > hardware. > Although you may say: "this" is our hardware, and we don't need to support > the rest, > that "this" will be stopped on production after some years or even months, > and your > whole "emulation" well be lost, since you will have something like the > real > Sam - something > industrially unsupported anymore. > >
