From: Jon M. Taylor <taylorj@gaia.ecs.csus.edu>
  To  : Martin Rehwald <rehwald@uni-muenster.de>
  Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 14:25:50 -0700 (PDT)

Re: A bit confused...

On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Martin Rehwald wrote:

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> Well, after looking about some hout for an appropriate documentation solving my
> problems i decided to send this mail.
> If everything i ask for has been discussed in detail somewhere in the www space
> of the ggi-project i apologize for inconvenience -- but i just didn't find it!
> 
> OK, some weeks ago i decided playing around a bit with OpenGL. One of the first
> things i found out was that most contemporary graphics processors do include an
> OpenGL engine. 

	Not really, except for expensive (>$1000) chipsets like those from 
SGI.  Other chipsets do 3D acceleration, but not an "OpenGL engine".  In 
fact, most newer 3D chipsets are built around (ugh) Direct3D.

Jon

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