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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by khedoros1 on Saturday January 07, 2017 @01:43AM (#13342707)
> The GTX 460 came out six years ago.

In your opinion, what's a reasonable timeline for hardware incompatibility with a terminal emulator? (That's an odd sentence to need to type...)

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Re:Show HN: Kitty – A modern, hackable, featureful, OpenGL b... by wattengard on Thursday January 12, 2017 @02:34AM (#13380500)
I think the real question is what benefits do OpenGL give to the terminal emulator that other solutions doesn't. And do they even need to target the latest versions? Maybe using OpenGL actually gives a huge advantage, but the bits that do work just as fine against an older version?
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