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- From: rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari)
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.012344.2304@wam.umd.edu>
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- References: <dlcogswe.726380388@vela> <1993Jan7.063446.28539@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 01:23:44 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan7.063446.28539@ryn.mro4.dec.com> Peter.Mayne@cao.mts.dec.com writes:
- >
- >In article <dlcogswe.726380388@vela>, dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell) writes:
- >>A guy I work with told me today the Microsoft has bought the rights to
- >>include SGI-GL with Windows NT and will be including it in an upcoming
- >>release! This is quite an advantage over OS/2 and brings NT to
- >>workstation level, in my opinion. If NT will have GL standard, I will
- >>most likely be switching over from OS/2.
- >
- >This is correct. It will be included in NT version 2.
- >
- >>I'm pretty shocked.
- >
- >Why?
-
-
- Good question. I remember MS licensing it for Win31 back in June
- of '92, right after 3.1 was released.
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- OTOH, nothing ever came of it.
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