Настроение:	amused
Entry tags:	computing

How 3dfx Voodoo began
https://retro.swarm.cz/sgi-irisvision-add-in-3d-accelerator-for-pc-1990/
>Pellucid made an IrisVision driver for Windows (btw, Pellucid was a short stop for 3Dfx guys after they left SGI and before they started their own company – the world is small). However, the driver is compatible only with the ISA version of the board set. Don’t expect the driver to add any 3D support to Windows. It only allows using the IrisVision as a 2D graphics card for displaying Windows desktop.

So in 1990 people could already do 24bit 3d accelerated graphics on a PC.

Not in real-time, but guess it was still okay for preview.

Still good thing the MIPS died together Sparc with Itanium.
Branch delay slots were a nightmare.

ARM is the best CPU and we got it by pure luck.
Hope x86 soon dies too.