from IBM

IBM offers OpenGL 1.0 at several different price and performance points, on most configurations of it's RS/6000 workstation line. Hardware accelerated OpenGL is available through two recently announced products: the mid-range POWERgraphics GXT1000 and the high-end Freedom Series/6000. Both platforms provide h/w support for texture mapping, accumulation, stencil and alpha buffers, as well as a h/w accelerated lighting and geometry transformation pipeline. The Freedom Series is based on an architecture developed by Evans and Sutherland.

OpenGL is supported on most other RS/6000 configurations, including the GXT100 and GXT150 graphics adapters for the PowerPC-based /6000's as well as on the CGDA, the Gt1 family, the Gt3 family, and the Gt4 family of graphics adapters. This support is provided through SoftGraphics, a highly-tuned, highly-optimized pure software implementation of OpenGL. (Because of the lack of support for an RGB X11 TrueColor visual on the 3D-HP-CGP and GTO adapters, OpenGL is not offered on these machines. This is the only exception to OpenGL support on the RS/6000 line. Sorry). OpenGL requires AIX 3.2.5 or later.

At the Fall '93 Comdex, IBM exhibited a software technology that allowed OpenGL to run under OS/2. The interface that integrates OpenGL with OS/2 was presented to the OpenGL ARB for review. Beta versions of that interface will be available in the first half of 1994, through the OS/2 Developer CD-ROM distribution.