20 Apr
2006
20 Apr
'06
10:31 a.m.
In article <4447A615.3070002 at yahoo.co.uk>,
Jules Richardson <julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Wow, that's not bad at all. My Tek XD88's a
couple of years later than that
(and they were considered pretty hot on the graphics front) and is only 8
planes and the equivalent of 4 GE's. [...]
My fully-loaded 1989 ESV has 88 bitplanes:
32-bit Z buffer
24-bit color, double-buffered
8-bit window ID
44 AT&T DSP32C processors for geometry processing
custom pixel processor ASIC <-- I worked on that
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