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From: Ed Federmeyer <fedeedw@charlie.cns.iit.edu>
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Subject: Re: low-level GTE and GPU
Date: Sun, 06 Jul 1997 11:33:35 -0500
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Gil Jaysmith wrote:
> Also, believe me, the low-level stuff is complicated in a particularly
> complicated kinda way. A lot of pros have trouble with it, and it's
> supposed to be their job to memorise and understand all the docs for
> GTE and so forth. Or that's what they tell us anyway :=)
> 
> Gil Jaysmith

Just out of curiosity, is direct programming of the GTE/GPU much
different than directly programming any of the mass-market 3D
accelerators for the PC (ie, not using OpenGL or Direct3D, but writing a
native 3Dfx, PowerVR, S3 ViRGE, whatever, game)?  (I have not gotten
into PC 3D accelerator programming -yet)  Does anyone know?

Ed Federmeyer