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To: Eric Howard who wrote (8536)	10/21/1998 2:34:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Respond to of 16960

Great question Eric. Ballard (and the rest of the management team) has been on shakey ground with me for quite a while now. If if wasn't for the strong design and engineering teams at 3Dfx, I would have bailed a long time ago. It is very common in technology firms for the management team to make tons of mistakes, yet the engineers bail them out. Happens at Microsoft and Intel all the time. I expect the same thing to happen at 3Dfx. There _will_ be a new generation of 3D graphics acceleration capabilities some day soon and lots of people will want those capabilities. I look for Rampage to deliver significantly improved graphics that allow software to be even more visually compelling and I expect that the lessons 3Dfx has learned/is learning from the Banshee OEM experience will help ensure that Rampage is adopted by OEMs also (ala TNT today). Psst! Want a good, detailed (but readable!) look at some of these future graphics capabilities? Check out "3D Graphics & Animation: From Starting Up to Standing Out" by Mark Giambruno. ISBN: 1-56205-698-0 $44.99US It's a great, product-neutral look at the current state of high-end graphics animation. Many of the awesome looking .AVI files on the accompanying CD took literally days to render on today's hardware. Rendering images of this quality in real-time is the ultimate goal and I'm confident the engineers at 3Dfx are working on making that goal a reality. Chip