Carmack on OpenGL

This is a note from John Carmack's plan (Yeah, one of the guys from ID) which compares OpenGL with Direct-3D. Very telling. Oh, and did I mention that Microsoft sucks? Okay, okay, not to be totally biased, here is a response to Carmack's message, by Alex St. John. And here is a link to SGI's viewpointon this whole ruckus.

Carmack on Operating Systems

Another note from Carmack's plan, this time discussing the importance of various operating systems to id.

UNIX is easier

Here is a little document I htmlized which discusses proof that UNIX was in fact easier to use than DOS. A must read.

Version 1.5 of I₂O spec.

The spec for the I₂O-bus can be downloaded here for the sake of free operating systems development. Please copy it and make it available everywhere! ``I₂O'' is the next generation PC-bus that Novell, Microsoft and many more consider the future computer-bus architechture. However by imposing strict NDA's, their purpose is to kill free operating-systems development and force everyone to use Windows. By spreading this specification it cannot be considered a trade-secret and therefore making it possible to develop free drivers for it, using this spec. The specification has not been aquired illegally. Unfortunately, it's only a draft, but at least we can't be shut out completely. This should give enough to go on for now. BACK ONLINE, but gzipped.

Our Sad Loss...

But at least I'm going to have one! Yes, I'm finally getting a ColorTurbo slab. I'll have some informative NeXT pages up soon! Ahh well, I don't have one after all. Deal fell through. Eventually...oh well, Apple's gotten with the problem. Too bad the hardware isn't a nice black cube though.