28 Nov
2006
28 Nov
'06
2:56 p.m.
In article <E1GpBR3-0007Yu-00 at xmission.xmission.com>,
Richard <legalize at xmission.com> writes:
Also, the ESV has quite a heap of commercially
available standard
CPUs, not custom CPUs. That didn't happen until the Freedom series
accelerators for Sun, HP and IBM workstations.
I retract that statement slightly -- the Freedom series used the AMD
29k chip for per-vertex processing, but had more custom ASICs (a single
ASIC replicated more times) than the ESV for per-pixel processing.
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