In article <m1EuJsH-000IyPC at p850ug1>,
ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk (Tony Duell) writes:
Yep, I
don't think I ever saw them inside E&S either. I saw a PS390
and plenty of ESVs, but I never saw a VS8000. The internal name was
"Shadowfax", IIRC.
Was it? I thogght I read somewhere that a custom chip in the PS390 that
removes stairsteps from diagnonal lines, etc, was called the Shadowfax chip.
I didn't work directly on the project and my memory may be playing
tricks on me!
When you join a company and previous engineers all talk about the code
names for previous projects, they tend to get mixed around in my head.
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