Re: Visual Workstation
Alejandro Saez (cano++at++krusty.engr.sgi.com)
Thu, 7 Jan 1999 11:33:09 -0600
On Jan 6, 9:21pm, Phil Keslin wrote:
> Subject: RE: Visual Workstation
> Greg Harrison wrote:
> >
> > I think you meant vg calls only. The pf calls won't be work on NT, though
> > gl should be fine (guess). SGI won't make a statement about Vega working
on
> > NT though Performer won't, they're none to happy that Paradigm made the
> > middleware they did.
>
> We have no plans on porting Performer because the port would be
> non-trivial. In fact it would require a complete rewrite. Since much of
> the work with creating at least the Scene Graph aspect is being handled
> by the Fahrenheit, we felt it best to leverage that facility in
> generating the first multi-platform 'Performer' version. We don't have
> the resources to rebuild Performer and build FSG and build FLM, etc.
>
> As for Vega NT, we are more than happy to see their product on NT. In
> fact, I for one hope it works well (especially on our systems). We can't
> make a statement on whether it does or doesn't work since the support
> for that product lies not with SGI, but with Multigen-Paradigm.
>
> BTW, OpenGL will be fully supported on the NT box as with all current
> and future products.
>
> - Phil
> --
> Phil Keslin <philk++at++engr.sgi.com>
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>-- End of excerpt from Phil Keslin
Thers is something I've been wondering about, and since I've haven't seen the
Vega NT wrapper and it is somehow related to this... well here it goes:
How does NT handle the real-time aspects of demanding visual simulations? I
mean I've used NT and Win95 and the OS's scheduling is pretty lame, even for
productivity applications. Open a file, and there goes interactivity...so
although this issue has to do with the OS rather than Performer or some other
API, it still puzzles me how can such an OS do real-time sim. This is not a
critic, it is a question.
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Alejandro Saez
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