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Re:SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx Re... by sureaboutthis on Sunday September 02, 2018 @10:07AM (#17897043)
If you mean in 1993, you mean GL, not openGL, I think. I worked at SGI in 1992.
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Re:SGI's $250,000 Graphics Supercomputer from 1993 – Onyx Re... by analbeads01 on Sunday September 02, 2018 @02:40PM (#17898043)
OpenGL was founded in 92 and basically IrisGL with bits removed. Anyway by the time quake was released in 1996 OpenGL was very much a thing.
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