On: HW accelerated Xwayland rendering for Nvidia merge...

[eikenberry]

Sorry, I meant X. Wrote X11 out of habit. But X11 is a version of X, so I still think the relevant date is 1984 and in 1996 I was still writing modelines in my X conf file... and at least with Wayland you don't have to worry about a misconfiguration frying your monitor.

[ori_b → eikenberry]

Wayland (and X11, and any other modern display system) will absolutely fry non-multisync monitors. Those were common in 1996.

Hardware has just improved enough that we don't need to care.

This isn't wayland vs X11.

X11 is terrible for other reasons, but let's not give wayland credit for hardware improvement.

[wnoise → eikenberry]

As another comment notes this is more due to EDID and multisync monitors: hardware and protocol improvements in consumer electronics.

X was actually okay in 1996 on the proprietary Unixes with their proprietary graphics card and proprietary monitors. (At least on HPUX, Solaris, and Irix). Linux and the *BSDs had some catching up to do primarily in hardware support and autoconfiguration. But they did so quite rapidly.