News - Windows 7 to offer DirectX acceleration without a GPU

[shaithis]

sex-core processors.

Steve likes his CPUs WAY too much IMO

[dangel]

lol! I wonder exactly *how* they'll be marketed? Sex, whilst technically correct, might be a bit of a minefield for the marketing bods

[kalniel]

Hex of course.

[dangel]

Too satanic

[kalniel]

I always knew there was something wrong reading hex-us..

[MadduckUK]

would have been worse if it was sex-us though eh?

[kalniel]

Ad revenue might have been a bit higher

[Rosaline]

Oh, one thing I forgot to mention about WARP that is completely unrelated to desktop usage...

Servers

I'll be honest, I don't properly understand all the terminology used in discussions of enterprise level server systems. But apparently, there are issues with using directX features at 'tier 0'. I'm not sure exactly what that means technically (or rather, I know of process level models, and that then confuses me, since I thought tier 0 was kernel), but practically that means you cannot use any nice rendering features when generating content server-side.

One of their objectives in making Direct2D and DirectWrite was to allow these to be used on server based systems. It struck me that the software rasteriser they were talking about for use with those is probably WARP itself.