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To: Michael Linov who wrote (11368)	3/27/1999 2:45:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

What the heck specs are you looking at? I noticed the original article was pulled. Here is what it used to say (from bluesnews.com): ====================================== Also, the newest issue of Voodoo The official 3dfx magazine has an interesting part about the next generation 3dfx chip coming second quarter of 1999. Possible Specs For 3dfx's Next-generation part Highly Likely to Near Certain: - Massive fill rates (around 900+ MTexels/s) - 32-bit color rendering with no speed penalty - Full-screen antialiasing with no speed penalty - Much bigger textures (2048x2048 or larger) - Texture compression - Support for 64 MB or more local, on-board memory - Multiple, independent pixel pipelines - Quad+ multitexturing per pass (2+ textures/pipeline/cycle) - 24 or 32-bit floating point Z buffer - 4+x AGP and full AGP texturing (for bullet pointing) - New blending modes: may be extremely flexible - Glide compatibility - 8-bit stencil buffer - 2D/3D - True single-cycle trilinear filtering - Extensible architecture (a variety of configurations possible) Probable - Real-time shadows and lighting with no speed penalty - single chip design - Some kind of specular lighting - Scalable parallel architecture (2+ Rampages can work in tandem) Reasonably Possible: - High tap anisotropic filtering with little or no speed penalty - Geometry acceleration - true bump-mapping with no speed penalty - MPEG/MPEG-2 texturing - Surface tesselation - Particle effects (for fire, hair, weather, smoke, etc.) ================================= Chip "Second Quarter 1999?!?!?" Anderson