Maybe im just dreaming abit OpenGL probably was not even invented when production of 8-bit cards went out of fashion. But maybe there is some 16-bit card with OpenGL that is backward compatible with 8-bit isa slots?
With this said and done i dreaming a little bit of a bigger project running ELKS on 8086 with ported GCC developing environment, would let vintage hobbyist developing a port of Brook GPU. Brook GPU is a general purpose graphic processing unit emulator, that allow applications developed within the Brook stream language take advantage of the gpu
as a parallell processing unit.
Maybe there could be interest in creating an Linux ELKS+Brook distribution.
Brook stream language uses the OpenGL and DirectX9 API to use the gpu for general purpose processing.
Dreaming big is good isnt it. But i have this gut feeling it actually will happen.
At least if there is an available OpenGL card for 8086 with a reasonably fast GPU.
A bit strange though thinking that they actually could have used the GPU to make the computers faster in the XT era isnt it.
JT
With this said and done i dreaming a little bit of a bigger project running ELKS on 8086 with ported GCC developing environment, would let vintage hobbyist developing a port of Brook GPU. Brook GPU is a general purpose graphic processing unit emulator, that allow applications developed within the Brook stream language take advantage of the gpu
as a parallell processing unit.
Maybe there could be interest in creating an Linux ELKS+Brook distribution.
Brook stream language uses the OpenGL and DirectX9 API to use the gpu for general purpose processing.
Dreaming big is good isnt it. But i have this gut feeling it actually will happen.
At least if there is an available OpenGL card for 8086 with a reasonably fast GPU.
A bit strange though thinking that they actually could have used the GPU to make the computers faster in the XT era isnt it.
JT