Subj : Graphics
To   : Andrew Belov
From : Darin McBride
Date : Wed Jun 14 2000 04:05 pm

Hello Andrew!

Replying to a message of Andrew Belov to Rob Basler:

 AB>>> IBM OpenGL Gold is a beta version of OpenGL v 1.1. There
 AB>>> haven't been any work done on it since its release but like
 AB>>> other IBM software it is still available
 AB>>> (ftp://ftp.austin.ibm.com/pub/developer/os2/OpenGL).

 RB>> Gold indicates that this was the final release, so I wouldn't call it
 RB>> Beta.

 AB> I've read somewhere that "Gold" designates IBM wide beta versions. The

I can confirm that IBM's "Gold" designation comes from the colour of the burned 
CD's.  The "Golden Master" is the master CD that we send to manufacturing to 
mass-produce.

 AB> final release of version 1.1 never happened due to rapid collapse of
 AB> IBM Austin PSP department soon afterwards (in November, 1997).

 AB> By the way, if it was the release, they will most likely have it
 AB> included in Warp 4.5 convenience package(s) but there aren't any
 AB> plans for OpenGL enhancements in CP#1, as far as I know. Moreover,
 AB> the Aurora distribution contains the same old rusty OpenGL v 1.0.

 AB>                                         Sincerely yours - Andrew

 AB> -!-
 AB>  ! Origin: Conea Software Mail system - Moscow, Russia (2:5020/181.2) 

Darin

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