On Sat, 3 Aug 2002, Daniel Sheltraw wrote:

"Acceleration" really means using the graphics hardware to perform
graphics primitives like "draw line", "fill triangle/rectangle", ...
"NoAcceleration" is basically: use the cpu to change every pixel
individually.

No doubt both those descriptions are technically wrong, and
misleading at some level, but they should give you some idea.

-- 
Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison         Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge
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