Name: James Clark
Age: 44
D.O.B: 23 February 1964
P.O.B: London, England
James Clark is famous for creating such programs XSLT Working Draft, C++ parser , SGML/XML , He’s started writing open source software since 1987. since 1991 he’s mainly been working on SGML/XML area creating such programs:
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XP
A free open source XML, parser written in Java -
XML stylesheet linking
A little W3C recommendation on associating stylesheets with XML documents.
API
API ( Application Program Interface) also refered to sometime ( Application Programming Interface) is a set of commands, functions and protocols in which programmers can use when building software for a specific operating systems. The API allows the programmers to use pre defined fuctions to interact with the oparating system, instead of writing them from scrach.
GPU
GPU ( Graphic Processing Unit). its a single chip processor. its used primarily for 3D computering fuctions, this includes things such as:
Lighting Effects
Objects Transformation
3D Motion
The GPU can help run the computer more efficiently
Shader
A shader is a small or set of algorithms that determines how 3-D surface properties are rendered and how light interacts with the object in a 3-D computer program.
Silicon Graphics are considered to be important because they deliver a complete wide range high performace servers & storage.
Open GL
Open GL (Open Graphics Library) is a 3D graphic program created by Silicon Graphics there are two main types
Microsoft Open GL
Cosmo Open GL
Microsoft Open GL is built into Windows NT and is designed to improve performance on hardware that’s supports Open GL standard. Cosmo Open GL is a software only implementation specifically designed for machines that do not have a graphic accelerator
Direct X
Direct X is a collection of applications/programes that handle tasks that are related to media for its microsoft program. its very useful for its video gaming.
API:
Direct 3D
Direct Draw
Direct Music
Direct Play
Direct Sound
Direct X
<—— (XBOX 360 has Direct X for its Gaming, Video & Media Stuff)
