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      9 <H1>Supported Systems and Drivers</H1>
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     12 Mesa was originally designed for Unix/X11 systems and is still best
     13 supported on those systems. All you need is an ANSI C compiler and the
     14 X development environment to use Mesa.
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     18 The DRI hardware drivers for the X.org server and XFree86 provide
     19 hardware accelerated rendering for chips from ATI, Intel, Matrox, 3dfx
     20 and others on Linux and FreeBSD.
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     24 Drivers for other assorted platforms include:
     25 the Amiga, Apple Macintosh, BeOS, NeXT, OS/2, MS-DOS, VMS, Windows
     26 9x/NT, and Direct3D.
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     30 Details about particular drivers follows:
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     34 <li><a href="http://dri.freedesktop.org/" target="_parent"> DRI hardware
     35 drivers</a> for the X Window System
     36 <LI><a href="xlibdriver.html">Xlib software driver</a> for the X Window System
     37 and Unix-like operating systems
     38 <LI>Microsoft Windows <A HREF="README.WIN32">(README.WIN32)</A>
     39 <LI>DEC VMS <A HREF="README.VMS">(README.VMS)</A>
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     43 <h2>Deprecated Systems</h2>
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     46 These drivers have not been maintained and are being deprecated.
     47 They can be saved if someone steps up to help.
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     51 <LI>3dfx/Glide <A HREF="README.3DFX">(README.3DFX)</A>
     52 <LI>GGI <A HREF="README.GGI">(README.GGI)</A>
     53 <LI>Amiga Amiwin <A HREF="README.AMIWIN">(README.AMIWIN)</A>
     54 <LI>BeOS <A HREF="README.BEOS">(README.BEOS)</A>
     55 <LI>Direct3D driver <A HREF="README.D3D">(README.D3D)</A>
     56 <LI>DJGPP <A HREF="README.DJ">(README.DJ)</A>
     57 <LI>LynxOS <A HREF="README.LYNXOS">(README.LYNXOS)</A>
     58 <LI>Mingw32 <A HREF="README.MINGW32">(README.MINGW32)</A>
     59 <LI>NeXT <A HREF="README.NeXT">(README.NeXT)</A>
     60 <LI>OpenStep <A HREF="README.OpenStep">(README.OpenStep)</A>
     61 <LI>OS/2 <A HREF="README.OS2">(README.OS2)</A>
     62 <LI>WindML <A HREF="README.WINDML">(README.WINDML)</A>
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     65 And for historical reference:
     66 <UL>
     67 <LI><a href="http://utah-glx.sourceforge.net/" target="_parent">Utah GLX drivers</a>
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