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Amazing, thanks!

A GL implementation for RiscOS in 1995 (presumably as a RM?) would have been curious. My recollection of the Acorn Worlds was that a huge proportion of Acorn staff seemed more interested in running NetBSD than RiscOS itself, and I couldn't help thinking they knew something we didn't.

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Yeah, the whole idea was a bit nebulous tbh. I remember the main guy I was speaking to at Acorn talking about creating an ASIC. I believe it was aimed at being some sort of early GPU. But the project never really went anywhere, anyway.

I don't know if it counts as OpenGL exactly, but Jon Kortink's Viewfinder card implemented true native hardware graphics acceleration on RISC OS.

https://www.zeridajh.org/hardware/viewfinder/index.html

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