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Comment by pjmlp

13 hours ago

That mattered on the PC evolution, it misses many others e.g TMS34010.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TMS34010

SGI IMPACT would be another

  • Or the RealityEngine, but really any SGI - that's kind of where modern 3D computer graphics began.

    • Sure. I picked IMPACT for having hardware textures. An interesting list would contain the first examples of processors that had things we still have today, like geometry processors. It would also contain evolutionary dead ends that tried to do things differently, like the Rendition Vérité.