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- From: marca@void.ncsa.uiuc.edu (Marc Andreessen)
- Subject: Re: GL distribution policy
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 00:18:30 GMT
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- karlton@fudge.asd.sgi.com (Phil Karlton) writes:
- :
- : doe's it happen cause the impossibility to support hardware
- : drawing of spheres (as it happen for some (big) SG machine)
- : on IBM machine or was only due to an uncomplete installation
- : of the GL library on the IBM machine I've used?
- : (We use spheres to represent atoms, of course).
- :
- : The spheres library is software and wasn't licenses to any other vendor.
-
- An SGI-compatible sphere library is included as ``example'' software with
- AIX 3.2 (see /usr/lpp/GL/utilities).
-
- Marc
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- Marc Andreessen
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