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- From: ciemo@bananapc.csd.sgi.com (Dave Ciemiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Need help getting GL over net to Macx
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.001916.8553@odin.corp.sgi.com>
- Date: 23 Jul 92 00:19:16 GMT
- References: <31491@adm.brl.mil> <1992Jul22.230358.3686@microunity.com>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Customer Support Division
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- In article <1992Jul22.230358.3686@microunity.com>, jsw@microunity.com (Jeff Weinstein) writes:
- |> In article <31491@adm.brl.mil>, marks@ra.rl.af.mil (David Marks) writes:
- |>
- |> [ David's expression of frustration about sgi ignoring a request for
- |> GL on top of X deleted ]
- |>
- |> Well if there is really a market for GL on X, then someone will license
- |> OpenGL, port it to run on top of X, and make a million bucks.
- |>
- |> --Jeff
- |>
- |> PS - I'm a former SGI employee, and I think that such a thing SHOULD be done,
- |> but that the result won't be very useful. It certainly wouldn't be useful
- |> for anything I want to do with GL.
- |>
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- I think what would be really useful in this discussion is explanation
- from customers as to how they expect to use GL rendering to X
- terminals. Do you expect to be able run dog on an X terminal? Do you
- expect current GL applications to just work transparently to the X
- terminal? Given that performance of such an arrangement of GL
- rendering to X may not provide interactivity, are you willing to write
- applications with this limitation in mind? Do you just expect to use
- the GL as a rendering description for static scenes? Is anyone out
- there using VOGL? How are you using it? What performance and
- interactivity issues have you encountered in this arrangement? What
- levels of performance are you acheiving with VOGL? How have you had
- to change applications to support this GL on X model versus using the
- applications on machines which support the GL? How many people out there
- would buy the product if all you could do is render a static image?
-
- To me, it would be most fruitful for these questions and others like them
- to be answered. I think understanding customer expectations of such a
- GL to X product will best help us decide whether or not it is worth
- providing such a product. If such a product cannot meet the expectations
- of the customers, then SGI is in a no-win situation. We're damned if we
- don't produce the product and were damned if we do. However, if customer
- expectations for the product are lower than we estimate and demand sufficient,
- producing such a product would be in everybody's best interests.
-
- Just thought I'd stir things up out of personal curiousity.
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