Purchasing SGI OGL certification wont help you, its my undertstanding (I'm not a OGL person) that the certification is limited to a particular setup (OS/hardware/driver). ie you certify a particular implementation, not the client side API (Mesa).
We live in a free country (free as in speech, not beer). It up to the individual to make the make the decision about where he wants to spend his money (for me, my time is way more important than money).
Modular servers, native OpenGL are all old hat. The sample implemetation may not have had them, but they've been around (discussed at conferences) for 5+ years.
Can't do it. The laws say that not only can't you have encryption, you can't even have any hooks that can be used for encryption.
Yes, I know this is stupid, but there's no way a company is going to do this, when the very thing it wants is to remove the encryption restriction altogether. Its simple politics...
And if you think this sucks, welcome to the real world... This isn't software, its not logical, its life...
The problem is not the large number of graphics cards that need to be supported, but simply that those graphics were first and foremost designed with Windows in mind. The concept of multimode visuals doesn't exist on Windows, so why complicate the hardware ?
Does anyone know if there is a project to do that ?
With (the just invented) eGTK (embedded GTK) (well really eGDK but eGTK sounds better). We could have a small machine that could run the same apps as the desktop (same GTK API) and we wouldn't need an X server (at least initially).
If people don't have the guts to put their name to a posting, its automatically of dubious provenance.
While ACs may have some use (whistle-blowing), to hide behind them for illegal activities (slander/libel are illegal, even in the US) should not be seen as acceptable, and should be pursued in law if all else fails.
Of course I don't expect anyone to agree with me, this is afterall/., where any AC can post stupid infantile comments.
I'd say its not so much a 64bit/32bit issue as a big/little endian issue. Intels 32bit processors are all little endian, MIPS and IA64 are bi-endian....
There seems little ROI to port Irix to a 32bit little endian machine.
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The linked case of the BBC seems to be on dubious standing at best, the BBC's trademark has existed since the 1920s.
Its almost a case of domain squating, and yet we (/.) rightly frown on that practise.
Purchasing SGI OGL certification wont help you, its my undertstanding (I'm not a OGL person) that the certification is limited to a particular setup (OS/hardware/driver). ie you certify a particular implementation, not the client side API (Mesa).
We live in a free country (free as in speech, not beer). It up to the individual to make the make the decision about where he wants to spend his money (for me, my time is way more important than money).
Modular servers, native OpenGL are all old hat. The sample implemetation may not have had them, but they've been around (discussed at conferences) for 5+ years.
Can't do it. The laws say that not only can't you have encryption, you can't even have any hooks that can be used for encryption.
Yes, I know this is stupid, but there's no way a company is going to do this, when the very thing it wants is to remove the encryption restriction altogether. Its simple politics...
And if you think this sucks, welcome to the real world... This isn't software, its not logical, its life...
The problem is not the large number of graphics cards that need to be supported, but simply that those graphics were first and foremost designed with Windows in mind. The concept of multimode visuals doesn't exist on Windows, so why complicate the hardware ?
Given that the X Consortium hasn't existed for several years (1996 ?), you're well and truely behind the curve of knowledge.
I can't be bothered to argue the rest...
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Does anyone know if there is a project to do that ?
With (the just invented) eGTK (embedded GTK) (well really eGDK but eGTK sounds better). We could have a small machine that could run the same apps as the desktop (same GTK API) and we wouldn't need an X server (at least initially).
Yea right, ANDF sucked major do-do's.
It was broken as designed, and only worked for simple test cases. Most real world apps do more than write "Hello World" to the screen.
Sorry that contradicts my second law, "anything that needs advocacy to survive doesn't deserve too".
Wait, there's more....
Even more radical, ban ACs.
If people don't have the guts to put their name to a posting, its automatically of dubious provenance.
While ACs may have some use (whistle-blowing), to hide behind them for illegal activities (slander/libel are illegal, even in the US) should not be seen as acceptable, and should be pursued in law if all else fails.
Of course I don't expect anyone to agree with me, this is afterall
I'd say its not so much a 64bit/32bit issue as a big/little endian issue. Intels 32bit processors are all little endian, MIPS and IA64 are bi-endian....
There seems little ROI to port Irix to a 32bit little endian machine.
Its the apps...