[forum] Some perspective from the cheap seats...

Allen Akin forum@XFree86.Org
Tue, 25 Mar 2003 18:36:19 -0800


On Tue, Mar 25, 2003 at 06:00:21PM -0800, Jim.Gettys@hp.com wrote:
| And some of us, who work on handhelds, can't presume we even have
| much floating point (no FPU), much less any hardware assist for 3D,
| or even for 2D.

OpenGL ES supports fixed-point, and I'm told software renderers for it
exist.

As far as hardware assist for 3D, we're probably looking at the last
generation of PDAs, cell phones, and similar devices without it.

Allen