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- From: akin@tuolumne.asd.sgi.com (Allen Akin)
- Newsgroups: comp.graphics
- Subject: Re: SGI - GL - PHIGS
- Message-ID: <1gqlihINNoq0@fido.asd.sgi.com>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 19:48:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.085415.8450@edf.fr>
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In article <1992Dec17.085415.8450@edf.fr>, philippe@cli52gs.edf.fr writes:
- > I have heard that the U.S. government want to develop the use
- > of PHIGS and GKS. That is why SGI is searching a PHIGS to put
- > on top of its GL library.
- >
- > Is it true ?
-
- Not to my knowledge.
-
- I've spoken to several government groups about OpenGL in the past few
- months. PHIGS may be a requirement for some government bids, but it's
- clearly not a requirement for others.
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- PHIGS implementations layered on GL have been available for several
- years; Figaro+ is an example.
-
- Allen
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