[Mesa-dev] [PATCH 00/13] Big pile of client-side GLX fixes

[Adam Jackson]

On 12/16/11 4:28 PM, Ian Romanick wrote:
> On 12/16/2011 12:51 PM, Adam Jackson wrote:
>> Series looks good. I got a chuckle out of the GLX 1.0 thing, I'm
>> completely unsurprised that nobody's recently run Mesa against an OpenGL
>> that didn't support texturing. Just how old of an SGI machine would you
>> have to find, anyway.
>
> Dunno.. what did they ship in 1992? It looks like GLX 1.2 even was
> required to support OpenGL 1.1, and OpenGL 1.1 was released in July 1992.

Crimson Reality Engine was 1993 (if not a bit earlier), and that could 
texture.  So I suspect the only OpenGL 1.0 implementations were in 
specific point releases of IRIX that people would rapidly have upgraded 
past; therefore, that literally all copies of those binaries have 
disappeared from the earth.

- ajax