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To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8554)	2/16/2001 1:26:42 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Maria> It's not where we've been, it's where we're going Do you mean like this?? clearstation.com

To: Ms. Baby Boomer who wrote (8554)	2/16/2001 2:40:13 PM
From: Thomas A Watson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

GL is SGI's invented standard and Open-GL is about making GL a universal standard. sgi.com The OpenGL® API began as an initiative by SGI to create a single, vendor-independent API for the development of 2D and 3D graphics applications. Prior to the introduction of OpenGL, many hardware vendors had different graphics libraries. This situation made it expensive for software developers to support versions of their applications on multiple hardware platforms, and it made porting of applications from one hardware platform to another very time-consuming and difficult. SGI saw the lack of a standard graphics API as an inhibitor to the growth of the 3D marketplace and decided to lead an industry group in creating such a standard. The result of this work was the OpenGL API, which was largely based on earlier work on the SGITM IRIS GLTM library. The OpenGL API began as a specification, then SGI produced a sample implementation that hardware vendors could use to develop OpenGL drivers for their hardware. The sample implementation has been released under an open source license (see oss.sgi.com). I think that OpenGL is currently winning the mindshare battle. Tom Watson tosiwmee