"On the design of display processors" has some great observations on the evolution of specialized/general processors http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/paper

"On the design of display processors" has some great observations on the evolution of specialized/general processors http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland-design-of-display-processors.pdf http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland...