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They failed to predict the future hardware. A failure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's the best thing possible.
by jfrunyon 5y ago
They failed to predict the future hardware.
A failure isn't always a bad thing. Sometimes it's the best thing possible.
- Macha 5y agoStating that they failed to predict the future hardware implies that they should or could have. Is this true? Maybe, maybe not, I'm neither a GPU driver write or a hardware writer, but I suspect no software writer in 1997 was going to predict the hardware of 2008.
- seoaeu 5y agoPredicting the future wasn't the objective. The hardware of that time couldn't have supported OpenGL 3 even if they'd wanted to
- ratww 5y agoActually they didn't. It was still backwards compatible, so the number change would be unnecessary in semver.