TGS releases OpenGL for HP 9000 PA-RISC workstations; signals start of OpenGL, Open Inventor and VRML for HP systems.LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 7, 1995--(SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics, www.siggraph.org) The arm of the ACM that specializes in computer graphics and interactive techniques. Providing publications, workshops and conferences, it has served technicians and researchers as well as the artist and business community ) Template Graphics Software Inc. Monday announced immediate availability of OpenGL for HP-UX HP's version of Unix that runs on its 9000 family. It is based on SVID and incorporates features from BSD Unix along with several HP innovations. (operating system) HP-UX - The version of Unix running on Hewlett-Packard workstations. , Software Edition, a complete OpenGL 3-D graphics library for PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. workstations from Hewlett-Packard Co. The product allows OpenGL applications to be hosted on HP workstations and viewed on any X11 display device. TGS TGS Tokyo Game Show TGS Ticket-Granting Service TGS Ticket-granting Server TGS The Good Shepherd TGS Teen Girl Squad TGS The Gargoyles Saga TGS Texas Gourd Society TGS Tomato Growers Supply TGS Trinity Grammar School TGS Tomographic Gamma Scanner will continue to optimize the software-rendering version and is investigating methods to best utilize HP's new VISUALIZE Graphics Technologies systems within the product. The OpenGL for HP-UX product release by TGS follows earlier releases of OpenGL by TGS in support of Sun Solaris and Apple Power Mac platforms. ''TGS is a long-time HP developer, with a successful record of partnering with HP in joint sales, marketing and development efforts,'' said Mark A. Canepa, general manager for HP's Workstation Systems Division. ''The TGS PHIGS (Programmer's Hierarchical Interactive Graphics Standard) A graphics system and language used to create 2D and 3D images. Like the GKS standard, PHIGS is a device-independent interface between the application program and the graphics subsystem. + graphics software is part of HP's successful U.S. Navy TAC 1. TAC - Translator Assembler-Compiler. For Philco 2000. 2. TAC - Terminal Access Controller. 4 effort, and we see future opportunities with their OpenGL products. ''We are pleased that such a proven software vendor such as TGS has chosen to deliver OpenGL products to our full line of PA-RISC- based workstations.'' Along with the OpenGL for HP-UX product, TGS is porting the C++ 3-D graphics toolkit Open Inventor to HP systems. Open Inventor utilizes OpenGL for graphics rendering, and allows developers to create sophisticated 3-D applications in a fraction of the time over using OpenGL. Also, TGS was key in the effort to utilize Open Inventor as the basis for VRML (Virtual Reality Modeling Language) A 3D graphics language used on the Web. After downloading a VRML page, its contents can be viewed, rotated and manipulated. Simulated rooms can be "walked into." The VRML viewer is launched from within the Web browser. 1.0, an emerging 3-D Internet standard, and recently introduced WebSpace, the world's first 3-D/VRML browser. TGS will deliver both VRML 1.0 and WebSpace support within their port of Open Inventor to HP hardware. TGS has released Open Inventor for IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) AIX (Advanced Interactive eXecutive) IBM's Unix-based operating system which runs on its Intellistation workstations and pSeries, p5, iSeries and i5 server families. , Sun Solaris, Microsoft Win32 (NT/95), and is porting the product to HP, Apple, DEC and IBM OS/2. Open Inventor for HP-UX is slated for early 1996. The announcement by TGS of OpenGL and Open Inventor for HP-UX ensures that HP workstations will support these emerging graphics tools and technologies. ''The cross-platform availability of OpenGL, Open Inventor and VRML software is spurring the recent growth in the 3-D hardware and software market,'' claimed Terry Baker, president of TGS. ''HP's VISUALIZE Graphics, with our ports of OpenGL and Open Inventor, certainly raises the price/performance bar to the next level. HP is delivering better graphics products at lower prices, something all customers enjoy.'' Template Graphics Software was the first vendor to port Open Inventor to any non-SGI hardware system and deliver the product to IBM AIX and Sun Solaris systems. TGS's Open Inventor for Win32 is the first for Windows NT and Windows 95, and includes support for UNIX UNIX Operating system for digital computers, developed by Ken Thompson of Bell Laboratories in 1969. It was initially designed for a single user (the name was a pun on the earlier operating system Multics). , Win32 and MFC (Microsoft Foundation Class) An application framework for writing Microsoft C/C++ and Visual C++ applications. See application framework. MFC - Microsoft Foundation Class developers. TGS is the selected OpenGL product and technology partner for Apple Computer Inc., and has the only direct-to-hardware implementation of OpenGL for Solaris systems. TGS is also the only vendor to be developing support for OpenGL on Microsoft Win32s (Windows 3.1) systems. About TGS Template Graphics Software and European subsidiary G5G produce cross-platform graphics software tools and utilities for Fortune 500, government, commercial, academic and research organizations. TGS has offered cross-platform graphics software since 1982 and is the largest independent producer of graphics software tools in the world. TGS is a source licensee of OpenGL and Open Inventor from Silicon Graphics. Template Graphics Software, with headquarters in San Diego, is a member of ANSI/ISO graphics committees, the VRML Technical Forum and the OpenGL Advisory Forum and is active in establishing new standards and directions for computer graphics technologies. About HP Hewlett-Packard Co. is a leading global manufacturer of computing, communications and measurement products and services recognized for excellence in quality and support. HP has 98,600 employees and had revenue of $25 billion in its 1994 fiscal year. -0- NOTE TO EDITORS: The TGS logo and FIGARO+ are trademarks for Template Graphics Software Inc. WebSpace, OpenGL and Open Inventor are trademarks of Silicon Graphics Inc.; HP-UX 9.x and 10.0 for HP 9000 series 700 and 800 computers are X/Open Co. UNIX 93 branded products. X/Open is a trademark of X/Open Co. Ltd. in the United Kingdom and other countries CONTACT: Template Graphics Software Inc. Robert J. Weideman/ Diane Connolly, 619/457-5359, ext. 222 619/452-2547 (fax) e-mail, info@tgs.com WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. , http://www.sd.tgs.com/(tilde)template |
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