9 Oct
2011
9 Oct
'11
12:20 p.m.
But in fact, as early as 1986, megapixel color cards
were offered for
the PC platform--and before 1990, relatively advanced TIGA cards were
offered by several vendors. ?The PC was beginning to compete with the
high-end workstations and good graphics were a must.
I had one of those TIGA cards - an NEC. I bought it at a hamfest for
$5 because the guy did not know what he had. For a while, it kicked
ass, even if my machine did not.
What I do credit the Next cube for was the use of
Display Postscript,
although it wasn't the first to do that (Sun, IIRC, was).. ? The MO
drive was just plain silly (slooow write, specialized media).
Hmm, that sounds like a suit made a dumb engineering decision. Oh,
sorry, that was Jobs...he has nerd immunity.
I think the MO was the single biggest thing that killed what would
have been a great line of machines.
--
Will