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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by jabbany on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:07AM (#30438495)
Huh, reading the first half I almost expected them to have a debugging system where the cats on the fence were composited by each layer drawing only part of the scene on top of things below (fence, then one cat, then the other etc.) so you'd see different things if different parts failed.

Plenty cute though.

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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by p_l on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @08:49AM (#30440883)
AFAIK SAGE computers had diagnostic programs that were written in such way that they drew a "pinup girl" on the console (there supposedly was another, more risque animated image too).

If there was a malfunction, the graphics would be malformed.

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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by teakettle42 on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @11:20AM (#30442734)
The full story and a photo of the display:

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/01/the-n...

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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by bitwize on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @09:31AM (#30441335)
Ah, the times when toxic masculinity was accepted in the workplace...
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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by LudwigNagasena on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @10:14AM (#30441891)
What?
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Re:The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8 by exikyut on Wednesday February 23, 2022 @02:19AM (#30438556)
This sort of strategy feels to me* like it would be ideal in a gamedev sort of environment - considering the nontrivial practical distance between each of the layers in this scenario, I can totally see each layer occasionally showing up out of alignment, or rendered in the wrong font, etc. My (very abstract and non-practical) impression is that the rendering pipeline in a game is typically much tighter/cohesive than an entire desktop shell.

* I could be wrong; I'm just spouting naive hot air with no practical experience at either end of this spectrum :)

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