Message-ID:	<331D109A.70E@cs.com>
Date:	Tue, 04 Mar 1997 22:20:10 -0800
From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Reply-To:	fighteer AT cs DOT com
Organization:	Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
MIME-Version:	1.0
To:	Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
CC:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: DirectX ----> OpenGL
References:	<Pine DOT SGI DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 970305090122 DOT 8941E-100000 AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>

Orlando Andico wrote:
> 
> Someone said (to the effect..) that Mesa-2.2 _does_ compile under DJGPP
> out of the box. I was motivated to try it (compile Mesa under DJGPP, that
> is..) but why bother, I'm not (commercially) required to support DOS :)

While I understand your sentiments, the vast majority of commercial
games are played on PC's and Macs, so it's nonsensical not to support a
3D graphics interface for those platforms.  Especially one that, by all
reports, is far superior to Direct3D.

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