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Mesa, also called Mesa3D and The Mesa 3D Graphics Library, is an open source implementation of OpenGL, Vulkan, and other graphics API specifications. Mesa translates these specifications to vendor-specific graphics hardware drivers.
The predecessor to Visual C++ was called Microsoft C/C++.There was also a Microsoft QuickC 2.5 and a Microsoft QuickC for Windows 1.0. The Visual C++ compiler is still known as Microsoft C/C++ and as of the release of Visual C++ 2015 Update 2, is on version 14.0.23918.0.
Brian Paul receiving the FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software from Richard Stallman. Brian E. Paul is a computer programmer who originally wrote and maintained the source code for the open source Mesa graphics library until 2012, and is still active in the project.
In the middle: the FOSS stack, composed out of DRM & KMS driver, libDRM and Mesa 3D.Right side: Proprietary drivers: Kernel BLOB and User-space components. nouveau (/ n uː ˈ v oʊ /) is a free and open-source graphics device driver for Nvidia video cards and the Tegra family of SoCs written by independent software engineers, with minor help from Nvidia employees.
Microsoft DirectCompute is an application programming interface (API) that supports running compute kernels on general-purpose computing on graphics processing units on Microsoft's Windows Vista, Windows 7 and later versions.
Release date Notes Softimage Creative Environment 1.0 IRIX January 1989 Beta debuted at Siggraph '88, v1.0 commercial release in 1989 [12] Softimage Creative Environment 1.5 1989 Softimage Creative Environment 1.65 1989 Added texture mapping: Softimage Creative Environment 2.0 1991 Introduced Actor module, IK, constraints, deformation lattices
3DNow! is a deprecated extension to the x86 instruction set developed by Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). It adds single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions to the base x86 instruction set, enabling it to perform vector processing of floating-point vector operations using vector registers.
Version 5 - April 2017 Version 6 - April 2020 - key updates included adding CMake support for project building, revamping the DSP module, introducing VST3 support on Linux, and Clang support for Windows, along with updated webview components on macOS/iOS and a variety of other platform-specific enhancements.