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To: Scott Garee who wrote (9452)	12/9/1998 8:05:00 AM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I'll add them to my list (and any others that I get before the call). The simple answers are they'll sell Banshee as long as there is demand (my guess, I'll ask the question), I asked about yeild (in general) and there haven't been significant problems, and demand is tracking as per forecast for V2 so I doubt any V 1 1/2 inventory has been used. Michael

To: Scott Garee who wrote (9452)	12/9/1998 9:46:00 AM
From: Scott Garee	Respond to of 16960

Some Rampage sleuthing from Yahoo. Yes, I admit it! I looked on Yahoo this morning. I was bored! . . . and found this little nugget: messages.yahoo.com@m2.yahoo.com It looks like Rampage will have partial geometry acceleration. Specifically it looks like the perspective divide will be done in hardware. I think this limited form of geometry assist is really a good idea since Katmai and 3dNow along with usual clock rate increases will provide sufficient transform throughput. I got this info from the Glide 3.0 programmers guide page 11 available at 3dfx.com Here are some direct quotes: "It is likely that future hardware will perform the viewport transformation and depth range computations to further off-load the CPU." "Window coordinates may be less than optimal on future hardware that can perform perspective division and viewport transforms"