Date:	Wed, 14 May 1997 23:05:18 -0500
From:	dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu (John Fremlin)
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: OpenDOS graphics drivers
Message-ID:	<i5kez8ew4ekV092yn@facstaff.wisc.edu>
In-Reply-To:	<9705140745.ZM8286@dopey>
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"Nicholas R LeRoy" <nleroy AT norland DOT com> typed:
>Personally, I think the idea of a 3D library for OD would be a huge score.
>Make it an *open* standard.  Some people are trying to do something similar
>for Linux, and there's debate as to what should / shouldn't be in the kernel.

While having an OpenDOS graphics API is a great idea, maybe
some standard for graphics APIs could be worked out with
Microsoft (or Sun, or the Linux people, etc.) so that OpenDOS
could use a "Standard". (Who's going to make software that
only runs on OpenDOS ;-)

There is a X-Windows standard (which I have never used and know
nothing about), could that be used by OpenDOS?

I'm sure that there are several graphics standards floating around
for non-PC computers; maybe one of these could be ported/adapted
for OpenDOS.

(Remember, keep the graphics stuff out of the kernel distribution
zip. New versions of most programs take more disk space than their
previous version. OpenDOS must not be like that.)

-- 
John Fremlin (dfremlin AT facstaff DOT wisc DOT edu)
             (fremdh AT essex DOT ac DOT uk)

PS. I no longer have email; don't reply to me in person.

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