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To: K. M. Strickler who wrote (37116)	4/8/1998 2:31:00 PM
From: rudedog	Read Replies (3) of 176387

Ken - I think you are confusing CHROME hardware accelerators with the basic CHROME product. CHROME is software technology, not hardware. I am on CHROME prototype distribution. It consists of server side components which create 3D content descriptions (basically instructions to a CHROME client on how to draw a 3D object) and the client side software which draws the image. The main goal of CHROME is to get a lot more information over slow links - it is completely impractical to do 3D over a 28K modem but chrome works pretty well on that link. The problem is that CHROME uses a whole lot of CPU to get the job done, and also needs sophisticated graphics capability. Some early developers are looking at offloading the decoding of a CHROME object, which would free the CPU from that job, this is like a math or graphics coprocessor. It is too early to tell IMO if any of the HW concepts are viable, since CHROME is a long way off. The most likely approach would be to have a CHROME capable graphics subsystem, then the CPU could just ship CHROME objects to the subsystem and be done. Hope this helps...

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