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Currently no driver has removed support for earlier versions of OpenGL. On top of that, most also implement the compatibility extension, which means you can mix old stuff with OpenGL 3.2+ contexts. The (the exception is Mac OSX, where only OpenGL 3 core profile for OpenGL 3.2 is available - you can still use old stuff, but not together with new stuff).

Currently no driver has removed support for earlier versions of OpenGL. On top of that, most also implement the compatibility extension, which means you can mix old stuff with OpenGL 3.2+ contexts. The exception is Mac OSX, where only OpenGL 3 core profile is available.

Currently no driver has removed support for earlier versions of OpenGL. On top of that, most also implement the compatibility extension, which means you can mix old stuff with OpenGL 3.2+ contexts (the exception is Mac OSX, where only core profile for OpenGL 3.2 is available - you can still use old stuff, but not together with new stuff).

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Currently no driver has removed support for earlier versions of OpenGL. On top of that, most also implement the compatibility extension, which means you can mix old stuff with OpenGL 3.2+ contexts. The exception is Mac OSX, where only OpenGL 3 core profile is available.