This page is dedicated to articulating HOT RECOMMENDS
from the janitor's tricorder:
(o.k pal, ya gots the goods on us--we admit it: this page is,
in effect, being presented as a "topical New"...)
At this time, we are choosing to present the HOT page via three different lens:
Video:
- The Lurker's Guide to Video, a repository for the little-known, undocumented knowledge that you need in order to write any sort of video app on SGI machines. Topics explored in great detail include Video in General, The VL, and SGI Video Devices.
- What We Did to Port the Developer Toolbox to IRIX 6.2
- our current DT TODO 18-month-out schedule
- The janitors' Vision of Collaboration between you and us
- description of The Remaining COFF Files on the DT as of v6.1
We've finally begun to include some of the prodigious Developer News articles. Extra-special hot recommends are:
May/June:
- The Next Generation of Compiler Technology
- Preparing for the PCI Bus on Silicon Graphics Systems
- Accessing 64-bit CPU Power with 32-bit Software
- Analyzing Java Programs with Cosmo Code
January/February:
- Exploring the Updated Hardware Interfaces of the
Audio/Serial Option and IMPACT Graphics- Adding Session Management to Your Application
- CDio, software for Writing and Reading CDs enables one to make an SGI efs OR ISO or Audio CD
- enhanced OpenGL: FROM THE EXTENSIONS TO THE SOLUTIONS: various corrections, 6.2-built binaries
- Customer Education's Revision 2.0, June 1996 opengl1 & opengl2 class source, both sets of which are revamped to use GLUT. opengl2's preferred platforms are Impact, RealityEngine or InfiniteReality and some of the new SGI_extensions must be compiled on IRIX 6.2 else they won't be used.
- gmemusage now includes the 6.2-based src; the binary is shipped in eoe.sw.perf.
- OpenGL Character Renderer: A Specification, Version 0.2, 26 Dec 1995
- enhanced OpenGL: FROM THE EXTENSIONS TO THE SOLUTIONS: various corrections, a set of complete class slides for printing, Search capability, links to other OpenGL web sites, and updated Man pages
- OpenGL Render Serving "Frequently Asked Questions"
- OpenGL(TM) and X, Column 9: EXIT: A 3D standard for X (finally!), March/April, 1996
- What We Did to Port the Developer Toolbox to IRIX 6.2
- Preparing for IRIX 6.2 & 64-bit, A Nutshell view and series of pointers
- IRIX 6.2 for System and Network Administrators, Pipeline, May/June, 1996
- IRIX 5.3 and 6.2 versions of
- Netscape Navigator Client, 2.02S, August 6, 1996
- Netscape Navigator Client, 3.0, September 24, 1996
- IRIX 5.3 patches:
- Patch 1412 - IRIX 5.3 Networking Rollup Patch, August 13, 1996
- Patch 1268 - 5.3/5.3xfs combined kernel rollup patch, June 6, 1996
- Patch 1264 - XFS rollup patch for 5.3, May 1, 1996
- 5.3 X server roll up:
- Patch 1271 - for Impact systems, May 1, 1996
- Patch 1187 - for non-Impact systems, March 22, 1996
- Patch 1102 - IRIX 5.3 NFS roll up, April 3, 1996
- Patch 1095 - IRIX 5.3 Scrolled Window patch, January 19, 1996
- PCI Developer Guide
- Chapter 19 -- PCI Device Drivers
- PCI FAQ
- PCI Developer Lab
- Preparing for the PCI Bus on Silicon Graphics Systems
- Grant Gouldon's Web Authoring Notes, some helpful jumpdoors for web authoring.
- a 5.3-built version of the 6.2 utility, showfiles enables people on pre-6.2 systems to extract src and/or man images of 6.2-built inst images like those in freeware 2.0.