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[Charles Shannon Hendrix]

On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 00:28:56 -0400 (EDT)
der Mouse <mouse at Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA> wrote:

> > This is just GL, the way SGIs were meant to be before they started
> > diluting them with X11,
> 
> I remember when IRIX switched from X layered over GL to GL layered over
> X.  I had a GL game which ran well before the switch, but, after the

I wonder why they did that?

It's interesting because Apple ended up going to drawing layered over OpenGL,
and X is rapidly heading that way too.

History repeats.



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