It served about forty or fifty users at a time and still managed to drive a graphics subsystem that was quite capable for its time.
The Cinebench was next up on the gamut and it really showed the improvements Apple has made in the graphics subsystem.
It provides platform independent access to a computer's graphics subsystem and operating system using abstract layers.
Presumably it's just a restart of the graphics subsystem.
Sharing is performed on demand, including pointer redirection communication between main system and graphics subsystem.
It was supported by the Operating System by the then new Cybergraphics retargetable graphics subsystem.
Other operating systems are modular, separating the graphics subsystem from the kernel and the Operating System.
PixelVision, a three-dimensional graphics subsystem is due later this year.
Also new to the portable line is the use of Intel integrated graphics subsystem.
Apart from the memory usage this technique can also be used to reduce the number of draw calls to the graphics subsystem and speed up rendering.