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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
- Message-ID: <hatton.726530814@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 22:06:54 GMT
- References: <dlcogswe.726380388@vela> <8368@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan8.174312.26479@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) writes:
-
- >In <8368@lib.tmc.edu> jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) 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.
- >>
- >>OK...what is SGI-GL, and what's so great about it?
-
- >SGI-GL is the Graphics-Library, Silicon Graphics is using on their work-
- >stations. I personally have no experience with it, but the people, that
- >are using it here on IRISes and INDIGOs are very satisfied.
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- Thanks for making the point - it's the HARDWARE that SGI has that makes
- the software look nice. I shudder to think of all those polygons being
- massaged on a 486 with a (S)VGA, presuming that kind of config is even
- supported.
-
-
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- Tom Hatton
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