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by pcwalton 3634 days ago
> all drawing is done either by direct writing to frame buffer from userspace

Before Windows 10, though, GDI was in kernel space, so it was a bit higher level than that, no? Old-style GDI apps would send state-of-the-1980s-style graphics primitives to the server, while newer apps would just write directly to the framebuffer, right?