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To: Keith Fauci who wrote (380)11/11/1996 8:18:00 AM
From: Shibumi   of 14451
 
Keith:

I'm sorry -- it's Intel's Advanced Graphics Port -- it's something Intel is working on for deployment in late 1997 (that date could have slipped by now) and is a much higher speed interconnect for graphics than PCI. It's still not SGI high-end kinda stuff, but it's yet another brick in the wall of the PC stuff evolving upwards.

The reason the higher bandwidth is so important is that with non-trivial window sizes (800x600 or higher), you can get fill-limited due to the bandwidth between the processor and the graphics adapter on a PC. This shows you how much of a joke the PC is today for doing really high-end graphics (despite the marketing fluff you can read by almsot any PC vendor) since the real issue SHOULD BE being geometry limited.

AGP with Intel's MMX (the 50-odd instructions in upcoming Pentium and Pentium Pro's) is Intel's big thrust into trying to go after more graphics content. Microsoft is responding with something called Talisman which sacrifices accuracy for trying to get better than postage-stamped-sized (note: this is hyperbole of the same type as the PC manufacturers use when they refer to SGI-like graphics performance -- it's really bigger than this) resolution and size for video games and the like.

I'm sure millions will pick nits with this explanation -- as they probably should -- but this is the broad thrust of AGP and the context around it.

Mark
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