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Re:WebGPU and WSL in Safari by tutanchamun on Friday September 13, 2019 @11:02AM (#20962743)
> [...] Metal is one year older than Vulkan [...]

Is it really though? Vulkan is based on AMD Mantle which AMD gave to Khronos. AMD Mantle (2013) predates Apple Metal (2014).

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Re:WebGPU and WSL in Safari by pjmlp on Friday September 13, 2019 @02:22PM (#20964856)
AMD gave Mantle to Khronos as they were going nowhere on their own.

When Apple released Metal, Mandle was still an AMD API.

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