From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri May 12 01:53:26 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id BAA18078 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:53:26 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id BAA18061 for ; Fri, 12 May 1995 01:53:20 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id QAA00834; Fri, 12 May 1995 16:51:30 +0800 Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:51:29 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: Amancio Hasty cc: Pedro A M Vazquez , hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: The Case of Thomas Vs. E&S ([MESA:12] OpenGL for Linux ) In-Reply-To: <199505120753.AAA00464@star-gate.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 12 May 1995, Amancio Hasty wrote: > > 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. I'll believe it when I see it. :) The Real3D card still has to deal with the PC bus and memory architecture. How des Real3D (or Martin Marietta) feel about releasing/licensing driver information to us free OS people? Any type of 3D graphics work calls for specialized hardware. Software is portable, but excruciatingly slow. I was playing with Xmgf (a 3D object viewer for X/Motif) on my FreeBSD box. Even the most basic Indy configuration (less than $10K) blows away the PC when rotating, scaling and rendering these objects. Same goes for X11/Motif Geomview vs. GL-enabled Geomview. No comparison. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org