Date: Fri, 12 May 1995 16:51:29 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao <taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw> To: Amancio Hasty <hasty@star-gate.com> 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: <Pine.BSI.3.91.950512164525.812A-100000@aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw> In-Reply-To: <199505120753.AAA00464@star-gate.com>
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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
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