Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: HARDWARE: Open-Source-Friendly Graphics Cards -- Viable? | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | Fri, 22 Oct 2004 21:27:26 +0100 |
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On Gwe, 2004-10-22 at 21:43, Jeff Garzik wrote: > engineers to write a complex 3D driver from scratch. If your company > _leads the industry_ in creating a standardized interface, doesn't > everybody benefit?
Not always - sometimes you win (Soundblaster, IBM PC) and sometimes you lose. Often you only win if you have a quality differentiator so you can sneer at the opposition and use words like "PC clone" and "Soundblaster compatible"
> Another advantage is that a simple "do GL" interface is much more > "future-proof" interface, since it is a very high level interface.
Not really, we are heading towards real time raytrace and the hardware and low level changes dramatically for that (including wanting to do non light traces for audio mixing, explosion models etc)
Alan
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