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#OpenGL and Windows NT

    12-Apr-94 17:30:27
Sb: #96667-#OpenGL and Windows NT
Fm: John Tissavary 71054,15
To: Fred W. Heidingsfelder 76556,744
The future of CGI will be interesting and confusing. I know about Microsoft's licensing of OpenGL from an earlier Byte article, but didn't know what they were planning to do with it, other than that it would "eventually" appearin NT. I think it's great that all these hardware manufacturers are making hardware to run openGL, and I hope this same hardware will be advantageous for 3DS R4 users, too. But I'm sure the NT/OpenGL/Hardware market is aimed not only at animators/graphics people, but also consumers. I'll be this is going to turn into a whole multimedia kinda thing that'll eventually trickle down to the consumer. Who knows? John Tissavary (LUNA cie)