Re:The history of the modern graphics processor
by jasode on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @09:03AM
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A nice complementary text (programmer's perspective) to the history of the hardware is the epic stackexchange answer:
http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055
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Re:The history of the modern graphics processor
by ARothfusz on Wednesday May 28, 2014 @11:24AM
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Very nice. Though I wonder why the author thought we (3Dfx) were "strongly against OpenGL"? One of our founders, Gary Tarolli, worked on Iris GL[1][2]. We weren't against it, but our pixel pipeline was in the wrong order to implement it precisely. Plus there was the GL tradition of handling things in software that your hardware didn't implement, and we hated the "slow path". Ok, maybe we were against it a bit :-) Coming back to me now.
[1] http://tech-insider.org/unix/research/1990/1211.html [2] http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/manuals/1000/007-1210-060/pd...