[geeks] T H E??b r i Q

[Bill Bradford]

On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 04:18:36PM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
> The Xsgi man page from 1991 refers to Xsgi running on either Irix 5 or 4,
> and it make more than one reference to OpenGL (and numerous references to
> IrisGL).  So, OpenGL definately existed during the Irix 5.x days.
> Further searching seems to indicate that OpenGL 1.0 came with Irix 5.3.  I
> wonder how different 1.0 is from 1.1.  Making the switch from 1.2 back to
> 1.1 wasn't hard.  The only difference I saw were that some calls had a EXT
> in them, which they didn't in 1.2.  Oh well, the 5.3 man pages will
> probably be enough to adapt backwards.

IRIS GL was the precursor (SGI-specific) to OpenGL.

(I used to admin a company full of everything from Indigo R3000s
 running 4.x, 5.2, and 5.3, up to an Origin 2000 running 6.5.x).

Bill (and those damned Nidec General power supplies...)

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Bill Bradford
mrbill at mrbill.net
Austin, TX