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- From: 5692330@mcimail.com (Robert Gammon)
- Subject: Re: SGI-GL in Windows NT??
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- References: <dlcogswe.726380388@vela> <8368@lib.tmc.edu> <1993Jan8.174312.26479@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <hatton.726530814@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 13:30:21 GMT
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- In article <hatton.726530814@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
-
- >> 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.
-
- I work in a segment of the semiconductor industry that sells chips to people
- like SGI. The graphics accelerator used has the MIPs equivalent of about 10
- 486s, and the MFLOPs equivalent of about 25 or more 486s. The bar is raised
- every few months, once or twice a year. Competition between the companies
- is FIERCE.
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- Robert Gammon
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