SUMMARY: GL on DEC alpha?

From: Grzegorz Mucha <grzes_at_twins.pk.edu.pl>
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 1995 13:24:57 +0100 (MET)

Im my last question I asked:

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my system is DEC 3000 400 with PXG card, with Dunix v3.2 with Open3D
installed.

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but when I run some applications from SGI on my screen I got:

riad 2% /usr/demos/bin/bz
dgl error (protocol): remote machine not DGL capable - alpha.twins.pk.edu.pl:0
dgl error (default init): default dglopen(alpha.twins.pk.edu.pl:0,4) returned -13

Any idea?

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and the answer is:

SGI has two versions of it's "Graphic Library":

GL: Used by many Programmers and vendors. It's defined by SGI itself
and there are only few others who have ports (IBM,SUN,?).

OpenGL: A complete new definition of the 3d-library with different
calls than GL. OpenGL comes from a consortium with many important
members (IBM,DEC,SGI,SUN).

DEC supports OpenGL not GL. So unless your application uses OpenGL,
you can not use it on DEC.

Thanks to:
Dirk Grunwald <grunwald_at_foobar.cs.colorado.edu>
Eberhard Heuser-Hofmann <vaxinf_at_chclu.chemie.uni-konstanz.de>
Stan Huhman <huhman_at_ee.deere.com>

for their answers.

                        Best regards to all,
                                                Grzegorz

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