Portable Graphics Releases NPGL for Sun Ultra 3D Graphics Workstations.AUSTIN, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 1996--Portable Graphics, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. of Evans & Sutherland Computer Corporation (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : ESCC ESCC Eastern Shore Community College ESCC East Sussex County Council ESCC Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma ESCC Enhanced Serial Communication(s) Controller ESCC Electrically Self-Calibrating Cavity ), today announced the release of NPGL NPGL Non Planar Graphics Library v1.6 for Sun Ultra workstations. NPGL is a hardware-independent version of the IRIS GL 4.0 graphics library developed by Silicon Graphics, Inc. The NPGL library provides a fast, efficient way to move proprietary Silicon Graphics applications to Sun Ultra 1 and Ultra 2 workstations from Sun Microsystems Computer Company. NPGL maintains complete GL compatibility while fully exploiting the speed and capabilities offered by the underlying graphics environment. NPGL takes full advantage of Sun's Creator Graphics architecture, an advanced graphics engine based on 3D-RAM See dynamic RAM. , that provides high-performance graphics and new media capabilities. Enhanced NPGL functionality supports both Creator and Creator3D graphics accelerators. This powerful technology provides high performance windowing For Northcoast Where we call someone over and then roll our window up on them. Bassline preference. For Example: "Hey, Andi." *insert window being rolled up* "HAHAHA. , 24-bit true color capability, video, 2D and 3D graphics and imaging. With NPGL, developers can port an IRIS GL application to Ultra systems by simply recompiling the source code. NPGL dramatically reduces code maintenance costs, because one source document supports Sun SPARCstation and Ultra workstations, and HP 9000 Series 700 workstations. Since 1992, Portable Graphics has provided graphics software developers with open-system, cross-platform porting and development solutions for GL-based 3D visualization applications on a variety of platforms. The company is the leading third-party supplier of GL, OpenGL, and Open Inventor on workstations and PC platforms. For more information, contact Portable Graphics, Inc., 3006 Longhorn The code name for the Windows Vista operating system. After the client version was renamed "Vista" in 2005, Longhorn referred to the server version until it was officially named Windows Server 2008 in May of 2007. See Windows Vista. Blvd., Suite 105, Austin, Texas, 78758. Telephone: 512/719-8000 E-mail: info@portable.com Web: http://www.portable.com -0- Note to Editors: NPGL is a trademark of Portable Graphics, Inc. Sun Ultra is a trademark of Sun Microsystems, Inc. in the United States and other countries. All SPARC (Scalable Performance ARChitecture) A family of RISC CPUs from Sun that runs mostly under Sun's Solaris, but also under Linux and BSD operating systems. After development began in the mid-1980s by David Patterson of the University of California at Berkeley and Bill trademarks are used under license and are trademarks or registered trademarks of SPARC International, Inc. in the United States and other countries. OpenGL is a registered trademark, and IRIS GL and Open Inventor are trademarks of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other product names are trademarks of their companies. CONTACT: Portable Graphics Debbie Herrington, 512/719-8007 or Edelman Public Relations Worldwide David Harrah, 415/968-4033 |
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