Well, once upon a time, going from "DOS-screens" to gray-scale-Mac and then wincrash,
it was important if one had 32kB or 64kB or even 128kB in the VGA unit.
Later on it was important with 256, 4096, 16-24-32 bits of colors, 8-16-32-64MB of VGA memory,
dual or single port, slow or fast, ISA or PCI, accelerated or not, rendering tits, nipples or
fighters, 64 or 128 data buses,etc..
And then it all stumbled on the size and weight of monitors...
Ilmarinen
And all along DSPs were used to produce the stuff, while some lousy pentiums tried to reproduce it,
MMX,SIMD and all.
DSPs as in RISC, what has been used for "graphic accelerators", since Intel declared war on
anything spelled R-I-S-C, when AMD made the 12MHz 286. |
