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GLSlang Draft Approved

Posted by chrisd on from the glbegin-glenable(directxenvy)-glend dept.

Screaming Lunatic writes "The OpenGL2 working group has approved the draft version of The OpenGL Shading Language (glslang). It looks like OpenGL2.0 is getting there."

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  1. Re:Why? by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You're correct on all counts. The sad thing is, Microsoft had a software OpenGL implementation since the dawn of time and really the only reason Direct3D exists is because of GLIDE. If 3dfx had just done MiniGL from the beginning instead of creating their own 3D API then Microsoft would likely have stuck with OpenGL instead of creating their own (Crappy) 3D graphics API.

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