[maemo-users] N900/Maemo 5 review

[From: Mark]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Gary<gary at eyetraxx.net> wrote:
> Mark wrote:
>> That's a straw-man fallacy.
>
> Have I somehow misrepresented your position? If not, then it's not a
> straw man argument or an informal fallacy.
>
> If you throw enough swap at an OS you can run anything but an I/O bound
> device is still bound whether it's portable or not. Unfortunately,
> virtual memory doesn't help much when it comes to graphics rendering.
>
> -Gary

Any OS worth its salt works on _completely_ different graphics
processors in the same machine. When I install a new graphics card in
my PC, I don't have to install a completely new OS, I just install the
new graphics driver. If the OS _requires_ sophisticated 3D just to do
basic stuff, then it's _extremely_ poorly designed.

Mark