Offering insight into the Solaris 2.x environment and its related migration strategy, this book contains an overview of the key technologies incorporated in Solaris 2.x, including SPARC and x86 platforms. KEY TOPICS: Covers emerging technologies, such as the Common Desktop Environment (CDE), provides hints for application performance tuning, and gives extensive pointers to further sources of information. MARKET: For software developers and programmers interested in Solaris.

Computers are an advancement whose importance is comparable to the invention of the wheel or movable type. While computers and the Internet have already changed many aspects of our lives, we still live in the dark ages of computing because proprietary software is still the dominant model. One might say that the richest alchemist who ever lived is my former boss, Bill Gates. (Oracle founder Larry Ellison, and Google co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page are close behind.) Human knowledge increasingly exists in digital form, so building new and better models requires the software to be improved. People can only share ideas when they also share the software to display and modify them. It is the expanded use of free software that will allow a greater ability for people to work together and increase the pace of progress. This book will demonstrate that a system where anyone can edit, share, and review the body of work will lead not just to something that works, but eventually to the best that the world can achieve! With better cooperation among our scientists, robot-driven cars is just one of the many inventions that will arrive -- pervasive robotics, artificial intelligence, and much faster progress in biology, all of which rely heavily on software. - Publisher.

A comprehensive title targeted at experienced 32-bit Delphi programmers and developers in the use of the industry graphics standard library, OpenGL, which has become a standard for programming in the animation and computer game industries.

Computer graphics; Interactive computer graphics; Graphics hardware; Graphics software; The graphical kernel system; Using the graphical kernel system; Getting started with GKS; An interactive drawing program; Extending the application; Using the drawing; A review of application design; Geometry; A geometry primer; Transformations; Modeling; Three-dimensional graphics; Shaded perspective pictures; Raster graphics; Programming the IBM professional graphics controller; Raster images; Raster techniques; Lessons learned; Using graphics standards; Appendices; Index.