On 10 Jun 2002, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > MH> Even moreso I hope nobody uses PEX. ;o) > > Could somebody smart explain why PHIGS was abandoned? Is that because > OpenGL is strictly more expressive?
My guess is that the reason OpenGL has a higher profile than PHIGS is closely tied up with the success of SGI, but I couldn't say which was the chicken and which the egg. Ten years ago when I was playing with this stuff, implementations of PHIGS were available (mostly software only) for a price, on Solaris, whereas IRIX came with IRIX-GL (the predecessor to OpenGL) which included hardware support where appropriate). If you wanted fast 3D graphics on a general purpose unix workstation, Silicon Graphics was a better bet than Sun. SGI then made a good job of marketing the OpenGL API (though screw-ups allowed a rival to release the first implementation), and the Farenheight (sp?) deal with Microsoft must have damaged alternatives such as PHIGS. -- Dr. Andrew C. Aitchison Computer Officer, DPMMS, Cambridge [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dpmms.cam.ac.uk/~werdna _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
