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- From: dlcogswe@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Dan Cogswell)
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
- Message-ID: <dlcogswe.726536483@vela>
- Organization: Oakland University, Rochester MI.
- References: <dlcogswe.726380388@vela> <pathak-080193094020@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 23:41:23 GMT
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- pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
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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.
- >>
-
- >BTW, where did you come up with the notion that GL is a standard. GL
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- I wrote: "If NT will include GL". I didn't say a thing about it being
- a standard.
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- >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.
-
- Who was talking about fast?? OS/2 doesn't have ANY 3D graphics built in
- and you're faulting some other operating system because it's 3D graphics
- aren't FAST ENOUGH??
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- --
- Dan Cogswell Or as we say in Michigan: "Dee-troit"
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