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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.726734031@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 11 Jan 93 06:33:51 GMT
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- pjdm@chmeee.enet.dec.com (Peter Mayne) writes:
- >In article <hatton.726615957@cgl.ucsf.edu>, hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- >>Thanks for providing a ballpark for comparisons, but apparently Mr. Cogswell
- >>has all the time in the world. For myself, having brought an SGI machine
- >>to a crawl (4GX? Don't remember the model) doing molecular modeling, I
- >>suspect that I would not be happy with the performance of NT with SGI -GL
- >>in software on a 486.
-
- >I doubt that anyone would be particularly happy, but at least it's (or will be)
- >there. (How about an Alpha, though? ;-))
-
- >Other advocaters:
-
- >Most people seem to be thinking "GL + VGA = Yuk". Please take into
- >account the fact that noone in their right minds wants VGA or CGA or
- >EGA any more. SVGA at a minimum, but in X years time, when OS/2 and NT
- >run on multiple platforms, there's no way that anyone will be using
- >SVGA by choice. Any graphics hardware is certainly not going to be
- >crippled by the necessity of VGA backwards compatibility. SGI certainly
- >don't use VGA to run GL, why should OS/2 or NT platforms?
-
- That was my point - just having a graphics lib in software available
- is not enough, you are going to need some serious video hardware to
- make it livable. Of course, by the time NT+1 arrives with the software,
- some *very* amazing hardware should be available. After all those
- years, there better be :-) :-)
-
- >When IBM (or someone) puts 3D graphics on OS/2, will you deride it
- >then, or will you suddenly decide that the time is right, and IBM will
- >produce the appropriate video drivers one day, so it's worth waiting
- >for?
-
- Same applies; and anyone who throws it in an OS is going to be playing
- catch-up with what is available *now*, not in the dim distant future
- when this feature is actually *available*.
-
- >(BTW, NT *is* version 2. Version 1 was called VMS 8-> 8->)
-
- Good one! :-)
-
- --
- Tom Hatton
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