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In article <145238@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>, canales@aliceb.llnl.gov (Tom Canales) writes:
|> Has anyone out there had any experience getting explorer 
|> running on a SUN? I've heard of a few ways to do this..
|> apparently NAG in the u.k has, or is about to have, a port 
|> that uses the XGL stuff on the Sparcs. Another option is
|> to get Nths Protable GL library for which Sparc compatible
|> explorer executables maybe obtained. The third is to get
|> similiar product from Dupont. I'd be interested in hearing 
|> about anyones experience good or bad with these or any other
|> options.

NAG will be distributing SPARC version of Explorer early this year, based
on version 2.0.  I think they intend to use Nth Graphics' XGL, and will
use OpenGL when it comes to be.  DuPont Pixel has their own version,
also based on 2.0, that uses their hardware GL board.  Dupont demo'd
Explorer on SPARCStations at Siggraph '92.

The port was done in-house at SGI last year, and it went fairly smoothly.

We have had fairly positive experiences with both Nth Graphics and Dupont
Pixel products. Most everything we threw at them worked.  But it was not
really an Explorer effort, since Explorer does plain Motif and all of the
GL is through IRIS Inventor, which does not exercise the entire GL.  Both
companies have been cooperative and easy to work with.

Bob Brown
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Robert L. Brown
Manager, IRIS Explorer
Silicon Graphics, Inc.