From: "Johan Venter" <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject: Re: WHAT EXACLY IS MESA?
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Date: Thu, 8 Jul 1999 08:22:05 +1000
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Steven Taylor wrote in message <931343053 DOT 487757 AT diddley DOT primus DOT com DOT au>...
>This may be off-topic, but many djgpp programmers use mesa.
>
>I've been to the MESA site, and nowhere does it actually say what MESA is.
>All I know is it has something to do with 3D.
>
>Software is completely useless if no-one knows what it is for.
>
>Please, don't answer me with, "MESA is an alternative to OpenGL" because I
>know Sweet Fanny Adams about OpenGL.

OpenGL is a proprietory API for writing 3D applications and using 3D hardware accelarators
(ala 3dfx, tnt).

MesaGL is a FREE implementation of the OpenGL API.

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