(For those interested in this discussion, please note that O'Reilly's forums seem to be chopping the conversation off once the replies get more than 13 levels deep. If you click on the "View" link under mweiher's post of 2004-03-15 13:58:01 you'll see that I replied, even though that reply does not show up on the main page. And then I replied again when the first reply seemed not to have appeared...oops!)

We seem to have moved onto arguing over the relative merits of vector vs bitmap retention, and the right place of the compositor in relation to the drawing mechanisms.

Does this mean that we can all at least agree that macos x does not in fact work like this today? (Despite what the subject line says.)