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SubjectRe: The argument for fs assistance in handling archives
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On Thu, 02 Sep 2004 20:11:13 CDT, David Masover said:

> It'd be like writing OpenGL entirely in software, before hardware
> accelerators work, and at the last minute have to change the library to
> use triangles instead of splines.

I expect that SGI did a software-only version of IrisGL first, so they could
figure out what the hardware accelerators needed to support. And even then,
the API for IrisGL got modified when it became OpenGL.....
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