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

[Big Endian]

>On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 09:21:54AM -0400, joshua d boyd wrote:
>>
>>  Yeah, but what I really need is better video acceleration.  This will
>>  probably take the form of getting an old SGI (hey, blender runs on Irix
>>  5.3 for R3k, and it is probably faster on that then a PC 20x faster, but
>>  with out video acceleration), waiting till I can get a newer SGI
>>  (hopefully I'll keep this job part time in the fall, then I probably will
>>  be able to afford that), or finding someone who can fix the video
>>  acceleration on my XFree install for me.  Because, having just enough ram
>>  isn't as bad as having to use software rendering.
>
>but what good is hardware acceleration if you don't have enough ram to hold
>everything?  disks are SLOW and so if you can't keep everything in fast RAM
>then what's the point?  or is my lack of understanding of this field so great
>that i can't just apply common sense to it?
>
>>  I wonder what version of OpenGL is used on Irix 5.3... I know that even
>>  Irix 6.2 is a touch out of date (don't remeber version number, but it is a
>>  version from when texturing is still viewed as an extension).
>
>maybe i could be convinced to get 5.3 on the PI 4d and see.  although i'm
>missing a monitor and keyboard for it, i can still install headless, and i
>should be able to tell you what version it's got?
>
>you'd have to help me out, i'm NOT and IRIX user.
>
>-brian
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I don't believe 5.3 came with OPEN gl.  If I remember correctly then 
5.3 uses IRIS gl.  Almost the same but lots of wierdness.  6.2 comes 
with OpenGL 1.1  6.5 comes with the latest(1.2).
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