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To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (11233)	3/18/1999 7:13:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Here's an email quote from a friend that's attending GDC: ========================== And all the 3d hardware cards in the expo are really neat to see - they are all either running a Q3 demo or half-life or the new Valve team fortress classic. Interestingly, 3dfx is doing an incredibly poor job of demoing their stuff. Their best hardware, v3 3500 is on an AMD K6-2 (66mhz bus, L2 cache on bus) and it just couldn't stuff the hardware fast enough. Small monitor, and the marketing types didn't know anything. Unless you really examined it you wouldn't of known it was a K6 (they didn't say anything about the machine type). 90% of people were concluding that the frame rate just sucked. To make matters worse, right next to them was nvidia showing TNT2 with 4 huge flat screen TVs on the hottest hardware running Q3 and half-life and they looked great. Dunno what's happening with 3dfx but I was very unimpressed. =============================== Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!! Chip stockcharts.com

To: Michael G. Potter who wrote (11233)	3/18/1999 9:37:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

<<I know that you have an NDA (or two, or three ...), but what about the value of the conference itself>> ...it was targeted directly at developers, of course. The majority of the time was spent talking about how developers can take advantage of that. As a beginner, I expected most of the stuff to be over my head, but I was surprised to find out it wasn't. I learned a lot about the industry as well as 3dfx's products. It was well worth the time spent. <<, any common themes>> Yep, big x-files theme. They gave out black t-shirts with the new 3dfx logo and "I believe" on them. <<peoples reactions to the new TNT2 cards (which were announced), etc.>> What's a TNT2? Seriously, the concentration was on Voodoo3 and the next generation products for obvious reasons. Pat