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- From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
- Message-ID: <pathak-080193094020@virtual.mitre.org>
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- References: <dlcogswe.726380388@vela>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 14:53:53 GMT
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- In article <dlcogswe.726380388@vela>, dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan
- Cogswell) wrote:
- >
- > 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.
- >
- What's the big deal? IBM has had a license for GL for quite a few years.
- They bought this license for the RS/6000. If GL becomes that big a deal, I
- am sure it could be put into OS/2 also.
-
- BTW, where did you come up with the notion that GL is a standard. GL
- happens to be a very popular rendering language mainly because SGI controls
- a large part of the graphics market. However, it is far from an official
- standard. In fact, there is a fair number of people who do high
- performance graphics who don't like the GL rendering model. The GL
- rendering model is great for rendering but animating a rendered object is
- difficult to do efficiently with GL.
-
- > I'm pretty shocked.
-
- Why? GL provides high-powered graphics on an SGI because there is HARDWARE
- support for it. Since NT is an OS, GL will be yet another way to render
- images under NT. Maybe it will form the basis of NT's 3D rendering API but
- it won't provide for fast graphics unless hardware support for GL is also
- available.
-
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