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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by alexlarsson on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @05:30AM (#4136229)
Thats not at all true. The original OpenGL API is very much a direct mapping of the original SGI graphics hardware. Most openGL calls on SGI are single cpu instructions feeding the data to the hardware, which fully implements the whole OpenGL state machine.

Its just that modern GPUs work in completely different ways, so this kind of API is useless for them.

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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by gaius on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @06:13AM (#4136345)
No, you have it backwards :-) SGI devised OpenGL and then implemented it in hardware, not vice versa!
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Re:If you were involved in the OpenGL ES specification, you ... by sillysaurus on Wednesday June 20, 2012 @06:11AM (#4136336)
Put some info about yourself into your profile so that graphics nerd colleagues (me) can learn about your very interesting work experience!
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