Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 00:53:19 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> To: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> Cc: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@iqm.unicamp.br>, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Case of Thomas Vs. E&S ([MESA:12] OpenGL for Linux ) Message-ID: <199505120753.AAA00464@star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 May 1995 15:23:02 %2B0800." <Pine.BSI.3.91.950512152120.599B-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw>
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> On Thu, 11 May 1995, Pedro A M Vazquez wrote: > > > > Should we ask E&S to do a port for FBSD? Porting the SI is not > > dificult if you have the sources and the license. > > I'd love to have OpenGL/DGL available on the FreeBSD machines, > since we are mainly an SGI shop. Heck if I could run Showcase and > have it display on a FreeBSD machine, that would be a good enough > reason to buy the product. > -- A couple of points: Xinside, Thomas Roell company, was completating doing OpenGL. His offering also includes support for a video capture. If we start generating requests we may be able to get him to sell it us... Software implementation of OpenGL is great but is absolutly nothing compared to hardware support for a chipset such as the Real3d or to a lesser extent the Glint chipset. So in this respect we can really dust the linux crowd. Now the Real3d is slated to be release the later part of this year so if we start requesting support for it we may still have a chance :) Whats all the fuzz about the Real3d chipset? Well, imagine a high-end SGI graphics workstation sitting on your desk but at a fraction of the cost of an SGI workstation. For info on Real3D: www http://www.mmc.com/real3d/ email real3d@mmc.com voice 800 393 7730 fax 407 826 3358 I really do think that we as whole have to be more active in pursuing support for key strategic technologies. Enjoy, Amancio
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