Javier Castellar (javier++at++sixty.asd.sgi.com)
Fri, 26 Apr 1996 22:54:35 -0700
On Apr 16, 11:13am, klaus wrote:
> Subject: Re: OpenPerformer & Vis/Sim outside SGI
> >
> > From: carter++at++eai.com
> > Subject: OpenPerformer & Vis/Sim outside SGI
> > To: info-performer++at++sgi.sgi.com
> >
> > 2. OpenGL-style: SGI takes the high road and places its hardware and
support
> > into direct, level, fair, head-to-head competition with HP, Sun, E&S and
> > anyone else who feels that they have the "grambaugh" to tangle with the
> > inventors of visual simulation, and the leaders in commercial hardware
> > rendering! OpenPerformer. This has the added advantage that the sales
> > force can compete to "convert" customers from other platforms to SGI.
> >
>
> Are you claiming that SGI are the inventors of visual simulation?
> Hmmmm. Not very old, are you? And Apple invented GUI's, right? ;>
You are right, SGI did not invented VisSim but a lot of people who work here
did in some percent in SGI, E&S, L-M, Star, ... etc.
What SGI maybe did was to reinvent it.
>
> -klaus
>
>
>
>-- End of excerpt from klaus
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