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From: kuba@hpfcdj.HP.COM (Kathy Kuba)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: New IBM Graphics Workstations
Message-ID: <17450004@hpfcdj.HP.COM>
Date: 21 Aug 90 21:06:10 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett Packard -- Fort Collins, CO
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>*>Has it been released yet or is it still vaporware?  Something else to
>*>consider is that IBM's high-end graphics board is an IBM proprietary
>*>and does not run the GL.
>*
>*    Is this right?  I thought that all the 3D graphics options for the IBM's
>*were SGI technology.  An IBM rep told me they would support GL.  I don't
>*know if it has been shipped yet.
>
>
>It is quite possible that they've ported the GL to run their high-end
>system, but that means that they'll only be tracking what we've sold them
>to date.  Which says to me that they won't be offering full compatibility
>with the current incarnation of the GL.

At SIGGRAPH, IBM told me that GL runs across their entire 3D product line,
which includes the Personal Iris boards on a 320/530 and the 730 with
proprietary supergraphics.  It is supposed to be code compatible with
SGI, but I do not know of anyone who has tried this yet--anyone out
there know for sure??  Their PHIGS (GraPHIGS) also runs across the entire 
line.

Kathy