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29 Jul 2024 18:23:31 EDT (-0400)
  Re: A modest proposal  
From: Alexander Enzmann
Date: 29 Jul 1999 07:27:53
Message: <37A03B1A.B529B99B@mitre.org>
Nieminen Mika wrote:
> 
> In povray.general Peter Popov <pet### [at] usanet> wrote:
> : Actually OpenGL is quite portable.
> 
>   It may be _quite_ portable, but not available for all the platforms povray
> should be, for example DOS or this sparcstation 5.

Of course it is (available).  Mesa (OpenGL clone) compiles quite happily
under DOS (and under Solaris).  Of course it doesn't do display stuff
under DOS, but it can generate a bitmap in memory that POV-Ray could
then write into the VGA buffers.

Xander


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