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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 ...