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Subject: Re: New IBM Graphics Workstations
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Date: 24 Aug 90 05:49:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:06 pm  Aug 21, 1990 by kuba@hpfcdj.HP.COM in uxa.cso.uiuc.edu:comp.sys.sgi */
/* ---------- "Re: New IBM Graphics Workstations" ---------- */
>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

GL will run across the entire product line, including the 730.  It is code
compatible, with certain exceptions, mostly related to the fact that IBM GL
runs through X (as opposed to SGI's, which uses NeWS).  For example, 
the mapcolor() call shouldn't be used because mapcolors() can do colormap 
changes 4096 times as fast.

An additional header file, gl/glport.h, is also included to help in porting
programs with obsolete function calls, and can be used to ease the porting     
process.

Marc