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Re:The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Friday April 11, 2025 @03:08PM (#43657336)
GPUs are just mitochondria that were absorbed into general purpose computers after evolving from early game consoles
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Re:The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie by gmueckl on Friday April 11, 2025 @04:29PM (#43658180)
GPUs evolved from graphics workstations (Pixar Image Computer, various SGI products...) rather than game consoles. Especially SGI pioneered a lot of the HW accelerated rendering pipeline that trickled into consumer graphics chips.
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Re:The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie by dehrmann on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:36PM (#43658892)
Have to mention that the N64 was loosely based on SGI tech.
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Re:The PS3 Licked the Many Cookie by gregw2 on Saturday April 12, 2025 @07:34AM (#43663518)
Not just loosely, SGI itself made the core graphics chip for N64.
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