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- From: steve@cse.fau.edu (Steve Smith)
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- Subject: Re: XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.002731.27623@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 00:27:31 GMT
- References: <1992Aug7.214716.26613@ferrari.nmc.ed.ray.com> <1992Aug20.174240.8241@trantor.harris-atd.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.174240.8241@trantor.harris-atd.com> ccarpent@dw3f.ess.harris.com (Craig Carpenter) writes:
- >--I just got the XGL 2.0 RTE Libraries CD. I'm not sure what it does for me!
- >--(talk about Dumb questions!). I realize they are libraries and assume they
- >--will (based on the 1-sentence explanation that comes with the CD) speed up
- >--certain graphics operations on the Sparc system.
- >--
- >--Do ordinary OW3.0 applications use these libraries if present?
- >--
- >--Thanks for any light you can shed on this.
- >--
- >--Bill
- >
- >The XGL libraries are for graphics acceleration. If you have some kind
- >of accelerator,
- >GX, GS, GT then you will get some benfit from the XGL RTE.
- >(my understanding of the product)
-
- I believe this is the library on which PHIGS is based. You would need
- an application that uses XGL calls to benefit from this product. Such
- programs would be 3D graphics/ redering types of things.
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