From: Stephen J B. <sj...@li...> - 2002-02-28 17:09:43
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On Thu, 28 Feb 2002, william.gacquer wrote: > Do you know if any company will embed such kind of beasts soon > in PDAs? Presumably - although it's not clear where the boundary between a handheld game console and a PDA lies. It might be that we see these devices appearing in things that look more like a GameBoy (but with full 3D and Linux) before we see them in PDA's. However, the difference between those might only be in the shape of the case, the presence of a joystick and the way it's marketted. > Paul, do you also believe that openGL for handheld devices is > a dead end ? Actually, I don't think it's a dead end - it's only dead so long as the CPU's have no hardware floating point. That's something that's bound to appear in the future - it's just a matter of what you can do on the available silicon area and without consuming too much battery life *this* year. ---- Steve Baker (817)619-2657 (Vox/Vox-Mail) L3Com/Link Simulation & Training (817)619-2466 (Fax) Work: sj...@li... http://www.link.com Home: sjb...@ai... http://www.sjbaker.org |