Windows NT 3.5 programmer tells the origin story of Microsoft’s iconic 3D Pipes screensaver [TechSpot]

Programmer Raymond Chen’s story starts with his friend and unnamed Microsoft colleague working on the company’s OpenGL graphics programming interface team in the mid-90s. They had successfully implemented hardware-accelerated OpenGL for the upcoming Windows NT 3.5 release but had no way to showcase the advanced 3D rendering capability to end…Read Entire Article