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RE: Nvidia relese



On Mon, 7 Feb 2000, Chen Shapira wrote:

> > http://www.nvidia.com/news.nsf/htmlmedia/press_releasesLinux.html
> 
> I didn't understand what they are doing... a new graphic library? a
> simplified API for OpenGL? 
> Whats the point there?

Support, probably in X, for full hardware acceleration for 3D apps. the
nVidia GeForce is one of the fastest chips in the market right now. the
way they announce it is the key here: the pride the company takes in
being the first to blast the news about such a project this loud. Matrox
released some specs, and I think Neomagic helped with actual code to
SuSE developpers, but here's a company that collaborates with THE
graphics-knowhow company, and THE Linux hardware knowhow company to
produce a full, finished product for end users with all the features,
nothing left to reverse engineer or anything. also OpenGL is somewhat of
a de-facto standard (at least WAS before the ActiveX days) and lots of
scientific apps are written for it on macs and SGIs, so this will be
indeed a major insentive for many software houeses to port.

plus it's great for gamers :-)

-- 
Ira Abramov ;  whois:IA58  ;  www.scso.com ;  all around Linux enthusiast
fortune: too many tries


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