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Re:The Nvidia Way – Review of Tae Kim's New Book by A_D_E_P_T on Saturday December 28, 2024 @05:43AM (#42530066)
Yeah, it was a good book. I got an extremely heavy dose of nostalgia from its description of the late-90s Voodoo2/Riva128 era.

It was such a fast-moving era, too. Check this out: https://www.anandtech.com/show/178/2

A card released in September 1997 is described as "an aging and slowly dying chipset." I suppose it parallels AI today, where a model released a year ago is already obsolete on the high end...

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Re:The Nvidia Way – Review of Tae Kim's New Book by zf00002 on Saturday December 28, 2024 @07:31AM (#42530595)
I recall being on roughly a 6 month upgrade cycle for my pc back then. Alternating between cpu/mobo/mem and gpu.
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Re:The Nvidia Way – Review of Tae Kim's New Book by creshal on Saturday December 28, 2024 @09:43AM (#42531342)
One of the reasons why Nvidia managed to get ahead was that they managed to get a new chip out every 6 months without fail, so there was always a new Nvidia card to upgrade to.
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Re:The Nvidia Way – Review of Tae Kim's New Book by tjoff on Saturday December 28, 2024 @05:50AM (#42530098)
Relevant context: In July of 1998.
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Re:The Nvidia Way – Review of Tae Kim's New Book by firstadopter on Monday December 30, 2024 @09:57PM (#42555968)
Nostalgia for the 1990s is real. I loved that era. PC gaming was awesome. I bought tons of 3D graphics cards from Rendition Verite, 3dfx Voodoo and obviously Nvidia. Having John Carmack tweet about my book nearly made me faint (surreal!). I adored his Doom and Quake games so much.
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