[rescue] WTB stuff...

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Tue May 28 10:59:41 CDT 2002


On Tue, May 28, 2002 at 08:54:51AM -0700, James Lockwood wrote:
> On Sun, 26 May 2002, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> 
> > I hear it does, but I've never touched one.  None of the Sun solutions did
> > proper OpenGL, which doesn't inspire confidence in me.  But, it does have
> > some rather meaty 3D chips on it (although the GT also did, and it didn't
> > do OpenGL).
> 
> The ZX and TZX had drivers available (from TGS) that were true OpenGL and
> based off of the OpenGL ARB sources.  They worked reasonably well for the
> time, though didn't measure up to an Indigo2 Solid Impact in my testing.

Oh really!  I never knew that.  I've looked and looked for such a beast since 
I've long wanted a ZX, but I didn't have to learn PHIGs to use it.  Maybe
I'll have to reconsider somethings...

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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